Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Title: Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Author: Sandy Tolan ISBN: 9781596913431 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST "Extraordinary ... A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum ... Highly readable and evocative." - The Washington Post The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East - with an updated afterword by the author. In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left Eu