Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will you sweep you up and never let you go.
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage.
Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn''t? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost.
But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are-not a war, but a revolution-and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria''s freedom.>
Tant que les citronniers fleuriront, il y aura de l'espoir...
Salama Kassab, 18 ans, avait la vie devant elle, quand la révolution a commencé en Syrie et quand les combats lui ont tout pris : sa famille, son avenir de pharmacienne.
Il ne lui reste plus que Layla, sa belle-soeur enceinte, et sa conviction de pouvoir aider son pays grâce à son travail bénévole à l'hôpital. Mais elle est tiraillée entre l'envie de se rendre utile, et celle de mettre Layla à l'abri. Au moment où elle se résigne finalement à fuir la Syrie, une rencontre avec un jeune militant plein d'espoir va tout remettre en cause.
Une histoire brûlante de guerre, de deuil, de famille et d'amour. Une lecture incontournable.
Sabaa Tahir, autrice de Une braise sous la cendre Tant que fleuriront les citronniers laissera une marque profonde dans votre âme.
S. K. Ali, autrice de L'amour de A à Z A propos de l'autrice : Zoulfa Katouh est une autrice canadienne aux racines syriennes qui vit aujourd'hui en Suisse. Elle est diplômée en pharmacie, comme son héroïne Salama. Elle partage aussi avec elle l'amour des livres et une passion pour l'univers du Studio Ghibli. Tant que fleuriront les citronniers est son premier roman.
Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go.
''I am owed a life that does not end in tragedy.'' A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin.
Now she works at the hospital - helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can''t. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left.
Unless you count Khawf. But he''s a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she''s seen. Every day he urges Salama to leave. Every day she refuses.
Until she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy with the vivid green eyes, who wants to stay and risk his life for everything Syria could be .>
