As Long as The Lemon Trees Grow

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh is a poignant and heart-wrenching young adult novel set against the backdrop of the Syrian revolution. The story follows Salama Kassab, a young woman who once dreamed of becoming a pharmacist. However, as war ravages her homeland, her life takes a drastic turn, and she is forced to work in a hospital, treating the wounded while trying to survive the ongoing conflict.

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A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital – helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can’t. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left.

Unless you count Khawf. But he’s a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she’s seen. Every day he urges Salama to leave. Every day she refuses.

Until she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy with the vivid green eyes, who wants to stay and risk his life for everything Syria could be …

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Weight 0.326 kg
Dimensions 13.0 × 19.8 × 3.2 cm
Author

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

417

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

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