Sandy Tolan ist ein Lehrer und Produzent von Radio-Dokumentationen, dessen Werk sich oft mit dem Schnittpunkt von Rasse, Sport und amerikanischen Helden befasst. Seine literarische Reise, die durch umfangreiche Berichterstattung aus über 30 Ländern geprägt ist, taucht tief in die Komplexität des Nahen Ostens ein. Als Mitbegründer von Homelands Productions und erfahrener Journalist nutzt Tolan seine Talente, um differenzierte Erzählungen aufzudecken. Sein Ansatz verbindet sorgfältige Recherche mit fesselndem Storytelling, was seine Werke zu aufschlussreichen Erkundungen der menschlichen Erfahrung macht.
Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old. On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.