The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan, . . Bloomsbury, $24.95 (362pp) ISBN 978-1-58234-343-3
The title of this moving, well-crafted book refers to a tree in the backyard of a home in Ramla, Israel. The home is currently owned by Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria. But before Israel gained its independence in 1948, the house was owned by the Palestinian family of Bashir, who meets Dalia when he returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967. Journalist Tolan (
Reviewed on: 03/27/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 400 pages - 978-1-59691-343-1
Pre-Recorded Audio Player - 978-1-60640-519-2