As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

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Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close When her city of Homs comes under fire in the Syrian revolution, an 18-year-old pharmacy student faces a gut-wrenching decision.

love how she taught salama that there is more to life than fear. that hope and faith is enough to have happiness and love. love how she always reminded her that her life is also important and that she doesn't have to stop living and loving. I don’t care about whatever uncertainties lie in our future. All I know is that I love him and that even in the darkness surrounding us, he’s been my joy. In the midst of all the death, he made me want to live.” This is my land, and just like the lemon trees that have been growing here for centuries, spilled blood won't stop us. I have God, he'll protect me. I've been force fed oppression but I will no longer swallow its bitter taste." I will say the plot twist was well-written and did surprise me (though I didn’t feel enough attachment to the characters to actually… care, unfortunately), and Khawf as a character was definitely one of, if not the most, compelling part of the book as a whole. Another thing I really enjoyed was how important religion was to these characters, and how they never strayed from it even when things like a blossoming romance could’ve gotten in the way of their values. That’s something I think we’re seeing a lot less often in YA as time goes on, and it was really refreshing to read as a young person who wants to be more religious! It didn’t matter that I was eighteen years old. It didn’t matter that my medical experience was confined to the words in my textbooks. All of that was remedied as the first body was laid out before me to be stitched up. Death is an excellent teacher.This book is so important. Emotional, gut-wrenching, difficult, but also beautiful, hopeful, and full of resilience. Salama’s story demands to be told. I hope to never forget Lemon Trees. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Baca Juga: “Bagaimana Cara Mengatakan ‘Tidak’?” Tampilkan Perempuan di Lingkaran Kekerasan Bukan Perang, tapi Revolusi A searing story of war, loss, family and love, of seeking grace in madness and hope in tragedy, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a phenomenal tale, a piercing keen for the Syria that was and the Syria that is. An absolute must read." - Sabaa Tahir, #1 NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes I had to write Salama’s character three times, to be able to flesh it out even more,” she says, explaining that her characters were not intended as purely tragic beings: "It wasn't fair to the people who had suffered... They are not just their suffering."

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close In this story, we find ourselves in a real place, Homs, Syria. This city has been shattered by the Civil War that started in Syria as a revolution in 2011. And that is also the time when the action of the book happens - at the dawn of said revolution. That's when Salama, an eighteen-year-old pharmacy student finds herself in the position of a war nurse, trying to help the victims of terrorism still have a chance to live in sordid times and hazards. 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 was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Lemon trees is everything. It’s grief and anguish, but it’s also hope and love. It’s a story about survival, about stealing these moments of joy when the world threatens to bury you. As an Arab, I was already aware of the crisis in Syria. This book still shook me to my core, to be reading about the horrors that the Syrian people have experienced. To read this book with no prior knowledge? This is exactly the kind of book that shatters our bubbles of safety and comfort when there are others suffering in the world. Book Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance, War, Young Adult, Young Adult ContemporaryZoulfa Katouh is a Canadian writer with Syrian roots. Zoulfa is the first Syrian author to be published in both the US and the UK in the YA category, and her debut novel As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a groundbreaking read that you’re bound to get moved by. It’s an epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution, from a stellar new talent. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, Katouh’s debut novel will sweep you up and never let you go, opening your eyes in an inspiring light. Pengreduksian konflik di Suriah ini ternyata menjadi kekhawatiran Koutuh. Melalui novel debutnya, Katouh berusaha memperlihatkan bagaimana situasi Suriah sejak 2011 bukanlah situasi yang disebabkan oleh propaganda atau perseteruan Sunni dan Syiah. Katouh bahkan menegaskan apa yang dialami Suriah sekarang bukanlah perang, melainkan revolusi. 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 to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are–not a war, but a revolution–and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria’s freedom. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh – eBook Details It feels so surreal to see the words that I wrote five years ago be translated into a book that people all over the world are reading,” Katouh tells Middle East Eye. Hope and resistance Meski dunia memiliki akses untuk melihat gambaran-gambaran ini, dunia tak akan pernah bisa memahami situasi konflik Suriah secara sempurna seperti layaknya warga Suriah sendiri. Di sinilah peran Koutuh, penulis berdarah Suriah sangat dibutuhkan.

The love story between Salama and Kenan seems star-crossed but destined to happen. Even though the circumstances look fatidical, you know they are soulmates through and through and following their sweet and slow falling for each other you will end up rooting for them with everything you have. His voice reminds me of the freezing water I splash over myself when I come home drenched in the martyrs’ blood. It’s stones weighing on my chest, sinking me to the earth below. It’s heavy as a humid day and deafening as the bombs the military throws on us. It’s what our hospital is built on, and the wordless sounds we make.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.