Young Palestinian – Ahmad – live with the knowledge that it is not able to win with the logic of a cruel war. Growing up in an environment steeped in fear of losing their home, work or life. Worst, however, is the fear of loved ones. I do not know what tomorrow will bring. The […]
Dutch mid price edition of THE ALMOND TREE
Dutch mid price edition of The Almond Tree
Hungarian cover of The Almond Tree
Hungarian cover of The Almond Tree
The Slovak translation of The Almond tree is being released. Here is an interview by a Slovak book blogger about The Almond Tree.
Hello Michelle, thank you for agreeing with the interview. Thank you so much.Can you describe the feeling of your books being translated in foreign languages? I’m so humbled. When I wrote The Almond Tree, my target audience was Americans in general and Jews and other Zionists in specific. I wanted to put the reader in my shoes […]
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 […]
Tracing The Origin Of Violence
An Interview With Michelle Cohen Coresanti, Author of ‘The Almond Tree’ There could be multiple readings of a novel that deals with conflicts, especially when it is related to recent history. Years of media intervention and endless discussions on the Israel-Palestine issue has seemingly inured the conscience of people who are not directly involved in […]
Another review for The Almond Tree by Sonal Agarwal
About Author: Michelle Cohen Corasanti has a BA from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MA from Harvard University, both in Middle Eastern Studies. She also holds a law degree. A Jewish American, she has lived in France, Spain, Egypt and England, and spent seven years living in Jerusalem. She currently lives in New York […]
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 […]