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Covenanter
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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: The Lemon Tree |
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Are you listening to Radio 4 "Book of the Week"?
Listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml
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Covenanter
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: The Lemon Tree |
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No-one interested 
THe listen again is now disappearing as it only lasts 7 days. I have recorded it & I will be happy to send a tape copy - PM me with your address. I should be able to make a WAV file & put it on the web. I am buying the book from Amazon.
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In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one found that his old house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir, was met at the door by a young woman named Dalia, who invited him in …
This poignant encounter is the starting point for the story of two families – one Arab, one Jewish – which spans the fraught modern history of the region. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, Bashir sees a symbol of dispossession and occupation; Dalia, who arrived with her family in 1948 as an infant, a fugitive from Bulgaria, sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust. Both are inevitably swept up in the fates of their people, and the stories of their lives form a microcosm of more than half a century of Israeli–Palestinian history.
What began as a simple meeting between two young people grew into a dialogue lasting four decades, a dialogue which may represent the region’s only hope for peace. The Lemon Tree offers a much-needed human perspective on this seemingly intractable conflict and reminds us not only of all that is at stake, but also of all that is possible. |
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keepingthefaith
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I think on my part (maybe I should have responded at the time) I have seen many things happen like this on both sides and have read experiances from both sides, like all conflicts it's the innocent who really suffer. and yes all that happens in the middle east interests me.
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