‘The Almond Tree’ has one of the most powerful opening chapters that I have ever come across in a book, and instantly draws you towards its vortex. Sentiments and emotions play their parts well, and the author does a great job in painting the images right before our eyes. The scenes seem real with the […]
Freelance Writer Nivedita N
…a book to be read, understood and to be shared with everyone who believes in the power of education and peace…I wish I could meet and congratulate the author, Michelle Cohen Corasanti on writing a book like this. May you write more books. May your pen keep flowing. May your computer never hang up!
Tarang
The Almond Tree was an amazing read. It’s moving. It’s interesting. And it’s engrossing. I totally agree with The Huffington Post that “This novel will become one of the biggest bestsellers of the decade.” And it should be. I’m eagerly waiting for the author’s next book.
Kitaab Review
…bewitching debut novel
Ghetto Guftagu
Michelle’s brilliance as a writer is hard to miss.
Wanda’s Reviews
This is a beautifully written story that will leave no reader untouched – a story that will devour you from the beginning.
She is too fond of books blog
The Almond Tree, strangely enough reminds me of Life of Pi minus the animals and the raft. Huh you may ask, where is the comparison? I find the lead characters, Pi and Ichmad to be of the same mold and fictional or no are someone to look up to. Thus, when he befalls hard times […]
One and a Half Minutes
There are a few books which will stay glued to me wherever I move, The Almond Tree has been added to that collection now. The author has presented a heart-wrenching and inspiring story for everyone. Ahmed will remain a sturdy example of how motivation and survival instinct combined with intellect made him rise from the […]
Book Reviews by Anuradha Goyal
The Almond Tree had traces of Victor Frankl’s Man’s search for Meaning. Both of them talk about the surviving through the worst possible human conditions and coming out of it with flying colors, keeping a hope alive for humanity in the middle of hatred, violence and all kinds of divisions that we let come between […]
The Times of India
‘The Almond Tree’ is a novel that begins inside a tunnel filled with darkness of violence and bloodshed. Slowly, that tunnel is destroyed and replaced by a bridge with the promise that peace and hope shall prevail. The crux of the novel lies in these words of Ahmed’s father: “One cannot live on anger”
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