The Lemon Grove: A Novel

Identical twins Ruzbeh and Behruz are at the center of Ali Hosseini’s debut novel in English—a story about love, redemption, and the courage to survive in the face of calamity and loss. The novel begins in the small town in southern Iran where the boys were raised and in their summer home which is surrounded by a lemon grove. Their idyll is shattered by personal and geopolitical events. Both boys fall in love with Shireen, a childhood friend. Behruz goes to America to escape the pain of com...