Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine

by Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans (Illustrator)

Overview

The graphic novel collaboration and true story of two sisters. Anaële, a writer, leaves for Palestine volunteering in an aid program, swinging between her Palestinian friends and her Israeli friends. Delphine is an artist, left behind in Liège, Belgium. From their different sides of the world, they exchange letters. Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine is a personal look into a complex reality, through the prism of the experience of a young woman writing letters to her sister about her feelings and adventures in the occupied territories. Green Almonds is an intimate story with big implications. A young woman discovers a country, works there, makes friends, lives a love story, and is confronted with the plight of the Palestinians, the violence on a daily basis that we see on our screens and read in our newspapers. Anaële's story is brought to life by Delphine's simple and evocative drawings, which give full force to the subject and evoke the complexity of this conflict, creating a journey to the everyday life of Palestinians.Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine received the Doctors Without Borders Award for best travel diary highlighting the living conditions of populations in precarious situations when it was published in France in 2011.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941302897
Publisher:	Oni Press
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Anaële & Delphine Hermans live in Belgium. One writes, the other draws. Their graphic novel Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine received the Doctors Without Borders Award for best travel diary highlighting the living conditions of populations in precarious situations when it was published in France in 2011. Anaële studied writing and is a socio-cultural facilitator. Delphine studied art and worked in an animation studio. She has directed several short films, the last of which, Poils, has won several awards.

Editorial Reviews

SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL — Gr 10 Up -The simple drawings bely an emotionally complex story, told mostly through illustrated letters from Anaële, volunteering for a nonprofit in Palestine, to her sister in Belgium. Traveling in Israel and Palestine, Anaële is bewildered and depressed by the walls, violence, and seeming acceptance of it by
Palestinians. People are friendly, but she's acutely aware of the freedom she has as a European.

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