The Almond Tree

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

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I’m Michelle Cohen Corasanti, the author of The Almond Tree, and this area is an opportunity for readers to ask me questions and have a discussion about the book.

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What are your future plans? Are you planning to write any more fiction addressing other issues?
OpenBusiness Talk India asked 12 years ago • 
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In your novel you have driven a point that all these conflicts are politically driven, since the time you have started evaluating this issue or doing research on this, have you seen a positive perception change both at societal and political level?
OpenBusiness Talk India asked 12 years ago • 
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Tell Indian readers something about your novel?
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What prompted you to pick this issue and write on it?
OpenBusiness Talk India asked 12 years ago • 
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The Almond Tree is your debut novel, but it is creating right noise all over, do you think that your novel will bring some change in the outlook of people towards Israel-Palestine conflict?
OpenBusiness Talk India asked 12 years ago • 
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How do you think your education and your experience in Israel helped shape up this book? Do you think that this book would have born anyway without either one or both of them?
Openb00k r3vi3ws asked 12 years ago • 
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One message to the bookworms who are yet to pick up your book?
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Did the response from the readers match your expectations from the book?
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From the conception of an idea to marketing a book, it is a long process. Which part did you enjoy the most and what was the most difficult phase for you?
Openb00k r3vi3ws asked 12 years ago • 
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While reading about a twelve year old boy and seeing his world through his innocent eyes I felt somewhat conflicted. I was sad, angry yet hopeful. What was it like for you to write about Young Ahmed?
Openb00k r3vi3ws asked 12 years ago • 
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Tell us more about Ahmed and Nora…
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Do any of your characters share your personal quirks?
Openb00k r3vi3ws asked 12 years ago • 
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What would you say the true essence of your book is?
Openb00k r3vi3ws asked 12 years ago • 
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India has become host to a number of literary festivals. Do you plan to come to India anytime soon for your book launch or a session, perhaps?
OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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Do you think a ‘two-state solution’ is only means to resolve the conflict? Would creation of independent states restore peace?
OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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Nora vs Yasmine: Who makes the better wife according to you and why?


OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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Was it a deliberate attempt on the author’s part to represent the two brothers Ahmed and Abbas in stark contrast in terms of their political ideas? Was it a case of the ‘Good’ Palestinian (Ahmed- the math prodigy who wins the Nobel) vs the ‘Bad’ Palestinian (Abbas- the freedom fighter and lives in abject poverty)? Ahmed’s easy acceptance of the oppressor’s society is hailed but Abbas’ rejection to be part of the same is criticized. Why?


OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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Significance of the almond tree in the book: it’s witness to the atrocities but stands mute and silent. Could silence be ever an answer to violence?
OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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Based on some of the reviews online, I realised that a white woman’s perspective on freedom struggles and resistance movements (in this case the Israeli-Palestine conflict) is scrutinised sharply to an extent of dismissing it as a skewed viewpoint, a portrayal, which is away from the truth. Why do you think it happens, is it a fair assessment in so far your book is concerned? Susan Abulhawa, for instance, says it’s “neoliberal white supremacy cloaked in sympathy and pseudo-solidarity” (I have read your response to her as well) Do you feel a white woman’s voice lacks ‘empathy’?
OpenThe Times of India asked 12 years ago • 
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What do you think would be a solution to the above conflict?
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