Get your questions ready for an online Chat Session with Michelle Cohen Corasanti on Facebook on 14th June at 9pm (Pakistan standard time). Further information and initial discussion on the Facebook Event Page.

What Khaled Hosseini did for Afghanistan in “The Kite Runner” is what Michelle Cohen Corasanti did for Palestine in her “The Almond Tree.” A must read book for sure. – Sohni’s Mind Store

Cześc Poland! The Almond Tree Book Polish Edition has been released. Here is a peek at the front and back cover and author notes in Polish.

I have heard people talk about some books being life changers. If Kite Runner broke your heart, then this book is going to a do dervish dance on the broken pieces and make you bleed again.

The preconceived notion that the greatest creations in world literature have almost been achieved in the grim periods of time comes true with Michelle Cohen’s debut, The Almond Tree. Michelle, although is a lesser known novelist unlike other Jewish authors of enormous fame, Imre Kertész or Amos Oz but her literary explorations and rich narration can be feasibly equated to such canons of literature.

It has always been a pleasure for me to read a good book but so rarely it comes in hand. This year, I have just finished my first book and I am pretty glad about it. This is The Almond Tree, penned by Michelle Cohen Corasanti and published by Garnet, UK, in 2012…

 There is an increasing trend when reviewing fiction to consider the biography of the writer, as well as the work in question. It should be the case that the reader completes the text rather than the writer (or their life) being drawn upon to explain it. But when writing about a conflict as contentious as […]