The Almond Tree, Reviewed by Tanushree Sharma Sandhu It’s a well spun tale of friendship, kinship, love, brotherhood, parenting…all woven in simple yet very effective language. Food for any soul longing for grit, determination, optimism, HOPE and BELIEF….This is what best defines The Almond Tree, a debut novel by Michelle Cohen Corasanti, a Jewish American. […]
Ahmad Abu Husein from Baqa el Gharbiyeh, the Triangle located inside the Green Line
Ahmad Abu Husein from Baqa el Gharbiyeh, the Triangle located inside the Green Line. He is from the same place as the protagonist in The Almond Tree and he was the inspiration for me naming my protagonist Ichmad. We studied Middle Eastern studies together at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He still lives in his village […]
Mandeltreet: av Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Forfatter: Randi Martha Evensen LITTERATUR JEG HAR i alle år lest mye om midtøsten, spesielt om Israel og jødenes historie. Jeg har ikke lest mye om palestinerne. Må nok innrømme at jeg har hatt mest sympati for israelerne kontra palestinerne. Noe som dog har endret seg en del hos meg de senere årene. Så kom […]
The Almond Tree – Favorite Reads 2014
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti The Almond Tree is favorite reads of 2014 for Nadine C. Keels. Written by a Jewish American author, here’s a book that’s garnered all kinds of attention and was the first such trip I’d ever taken to Palestine–a political novel, I’m sure, but I wasn’t caught up in […]
The story is brilliantly written, and leaves you emotionally shaken
The Almond Tree By Michelle Cohen Corasanti A Book Review by Tannaaz Irani This is a story about a Palestinian from boyhood till the time he becomes a grandfather, spans his life story in two vastly different continents, seeing dramatically different lifestyles in each. It is a boy’s journey — the travails he goes through […]
There are certain books which live with you forever. These are the books which you want to read one more time.
Book Review: The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti My Rating***** There are certain books which live with you forever. These are the books which you want to read one more time. While you feel pride in having these books in your bookshelf, you do not want to lend these books to anybody because you feel […]
Vakkert om lang- varig konflikt
Mandeltreet ble gitt ut i USA i 2012 og var Michelle Cohen Corasantis debutroman, en start hun trygt kan være stolt av … Dette er en historie om splittelsen mellom to folk, palestinere og israelere, altså er den uhyre aktuell den dag i dag. Historien i boken starter i 1955 og ender i 2009 – fordelt […]
A poignant story that will reach out to those of us who yearn to see the Middle East conflicts resolved peacefully once and for all.
The Almond Tree by Michele Cohen Corasanti, Book review. Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Garnet Publishing; First Edition edition (September 30, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-1859643297 Also available in KINDLE format SYNOPSIS: Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid struggles with knowing that he can do nothing to save his friends […]
A letter to the President from Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Michelle Cohen Corasanti is the Jewish American author of The Almond Tree, a novel that examines the plight of the Palestinians of Israel and Gaza through the eyes of a boy named Ichmad. Corasanti lived in Israel for seven years, where she attended the Hebrew University and saw the horrors and humiliations Palestinians are subjected […]
The Almond Tree review from Prismatic Prospects
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti My rating: 5 of 5 stars May the battles that we fight be for the advancement of humanity. That’s not a quote from The Almond Tree; it’s the note from the author, Michelle Cohen Corasanti, that accompanied the copy of the book I received: a novel I don’t think would garner so much […]