About the Book

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old 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 Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR's "Fresh Air" in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 362 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Apr. 30th, 2007)

ISBN-10: 1596913436

ISBN-13: 9781596913431

Dimensions: 5.53 x 8.37 x 0.99 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.78 lbs

• Categories: General Biography & Autobiography General Middle Eastern General Government