Among the Almond Trees
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Hussein Barghouthi
Translated by Ibrahim Muhawi
The writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He returns to childhood memories in the village he was born in, in Palestine, and in this memoir, which recently won the Palestine Book Award, reflects on exile, illness and death, home, nature and the possibility of return.
Seagull Books, Rs 599, 154 pages
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