As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

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This book is soul-crashing and heart-shattering and it's so beautiful in its unique sadness that will grip you and make you live with the characters, taking breaths with them and rooting for their happiness while suffering their drama with each of your heartbeats. Kenean and salama relationship was so beautiful and adorable and heartwarming. So pure so innocent <3 I loved their banter so much. How the smallest touch between them made my heart melt. This is my land, and just like the lemon trees that have been growing here for centuries, spilled blood won’t stop us.” The cold air bites through my lab coat’s worn- out material, and the harsh touch of it makes me shiver. I murmur, “Feverfew. They look like daisies. Treats fevers and arthritis. Feverfew. Feverfew. Feverfew.” And now, with everything that’s happened, my responsibility and the only family I have left in the world.

Set in war-torn Syria, As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow follows Salama’s inner battle between the desire to escape and the guilt of leaving her country behind. This heartbreaking novel explores the human beings affected by the war: their fear, love and hunger to change the world. Ia kemudian melanjutkan, “Orang-orang berlalu begitu saja saat kamu berdarah dan kesakitan, mereka mengabaikanmu atau tidak dapat mendengarmu atau tidak mengakui keberadaanmu karena sudah terlalu banyak kengerian yang mereka alami.” even though the memories ache, it's the only way we get to see our loved ones – replaying their words to us, letting our imaginations magnify or soften their voices however we please.' Even though the memories ache, it’s the only way we get to see our loved ones—replaying their words to us, letting our imaginations magnify or soften their voices however we please.”Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. heartbreaking, gut wrenching, soul crushing. but undoubtedly one of the best books i have ever read.

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. 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. Baca Juga: “Bagaimana Cara Mengatakan ‘Tidak’?” Tampilkan Perempuan di Lingkaran Kekerasan Bukan Perang, tapi Revolusi It didn’t matter that I was eighteen years old. It didn’t matter that my medical experience was confined to the words in my textbooks. All of that was remedied as the first body was laid out before me to be stitched up. Death is an excellent teacher. 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.Dengan penghinaan sebagai salah satu faktor utama di dalamnya, sindrom ini menjangkau ke dalam inti keberadaan seseorang. Menghancurkan kemanusia dalam tiap jiwa korbannya secara terencana dan total hingga membuat mereka hidup layaknya cangkang saja. Ini adalah kehancuran… secara mental, fisik, emosional, psikologis, kognitif, neuropsikologis. Besarnya [trauma] frekuensi serta lamanya waktu sangat jauh lebih tinggi, jauh lebih dalam daripada pasien PTSD,” jelas Hamza kepada VOA. The love story between Salama and Kenan seems star-crossed but destined to happen. Even though the circumstances look fatidical, you know they are soulmates through and through and following their sweet and slow falling for each other you will end up rooting for them with everything you have.

Salama ahh salama she was so strong and loyal to her family and to her patients and to her country. It was so hard being in her mind sometimes. The guilt and the fear and sadness was to much. She wasn't perfect she made mistakes horrible ones but she's only human and the fear and desperate need to survive will make u do anything. I understand and I love her with my whole heart <33 Even though everything written in the book has been documented and reported on the news and the internet for more than ten years, not a lot of people know what's going on. Which is why I wanted to make it into a story. In the end, that's what human life is; stories. A Canadian national with Syrian parents, Katouh split her childhood between Dubai and Switzerland, where she found that she was on the receiving end of a lot of questions about Syria and the war. She felt duty-bound to serve her fellow Syrians, even if it was from a distance.I'm sure our souls met way before they found their way into our bodies. I think that's where we know each other from." And despite it all, I hope you see my Lemon Babies as more than the sadness. We are so much more than that. We are not what the media has written us to be. We are proud, resilient, kind, ambitious, generous. We changed the world. We were the cradle of civilisation-- inventions happened because of us. Our history is golden. We are strong hijabi girls who live life to the fullest, and soft, kind Muslim boys who reject the toxic masculinity ideology. We are not what they wrote us to be. We are not a stereotype. We are so much more than you can imagine. Salama, Layla, and Kenan are more than their pain and loss. In this story, we find ourselves in a real place, Homs, Syria. This city has been shattered by the Civil War that started in Syria as a revolution in 2011. And that is also the time when the action of the book happens - at the dawn of said revolution. That's when Salama, an eighteen-year-old pharmacy student finds herself in the position of a war nurse, trying to help the victims of terrorism still have a chance to live in sordid times and hazards. Katouh felt like those outside had become immune and fatigued by the events unfolding in Syria and the human impact it was having on people. Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ll be okay. Even if…” He takes in a deep breath and presses his forehead against mine. “Know that even in death, you’re my life.”