As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
โ Scribed by Zoulfa Katouh
- Book ID
- 110651735
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316351614
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โฆ Synopsis
A love letter to Syria and its people,As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility. Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea.
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager's life.
Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe.
But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty...
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