The lemon tree

The book is a non-fiction work that traces the Palestinian conflict through the personal histories of two individuals: Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family were Holocaust survivors from Bulgaria, and Bashir, a Palestinian man whose family fled their home in 1948. They meet in 1967 when Bashir returns to see his childhood home in Ramla, which Dalia's family now occupies. The lemon tree in the backyard serves as a powerful symbol of home, loss, and the complex, shared history of the region. The narrative explores their decades-long difficult friendship and provides a human perspective on the conflict, built from extensive research and interviews.