EAN: 9780316351485

AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW - ZOULFA KATOUH...

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 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.

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