Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir Barghouthi Hussein
Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir Barghouthi Hussein A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.Palestinian…
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Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir Barghouthi Hussein
A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. The bittersweetness of this reaction characterizes the alternating moods of narration and reflection that distinguish this meditative memoir, Among the Almond Trees.Barghouthi's way of dealing with finality is to return to memories of childhood in the village of his birth in central Palestine, where the house in which he grew up is surrounded by almond and fig orchards. He had feared it was HIV, so when the cancer diagnosis was confirmed, he left the hospital feeling a bitter joy because his wife and son would be spared.
He takes many healing walks in the moonlit shadows of the trees, where he observes curious foxes, dancing gazelles, a badger
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