As long as the lemon trees grow

Title
As long as the lemon trees grow

Personal Author EPSB
Zoulfa, Katouh

Summary
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are - not a war, but a revolution.

Year Published
2022

Physical Description
417 pages ; 22 cm

Note
Some editions may include: Reading group guide, bonus story "Joy"

Awards
Finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature - Text.

Subject
Fear -- Fiction.
 
Survival -- Fiction.
 
Hospitals -- Fiction.
 
Imaginary companions -- Fiction.
 
Young adult fiction.

Geographic Term
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.

Summary
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are - not a war, but a revolution.

ISBN
9780316351379
 
9780316351485

Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022, 2024.


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