Among the Almond Trees by Hussein Barghouthi, Ibrahim Muhawi,... - 9780857428967

Seagull Books London Ltd

Among the Almond TreesA Palestinian Memoir\nAuthor(s): Hussein Barghouthi, Ibrahim Muhawi, Ibrahim Muhawi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seagull Books London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780857428967, 978-0857428967\nSynopsis\nA poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.\n\n Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. 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. The bittersweetness of this reaction characterizes the alternating moods of narration and reflection that distinguish this meditative memoir, Among the Almond Trees.\n Barghouthis 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.