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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
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I think this was a good intro to learning about the occupation of Palestine, but I don't like the privileged point of view of the author as a tourist who can come and go as she pleases or the way she gets mad at her friend for his inability to share his trauma with her.
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3.5 stars, rounded up.
Anaele lives in Liege Belgium.In 2008 her sister, Delphine, leaves to live and work in Bethlehem, Palestine for ten moths. This graphic novel shares their experience living so far apart, and the correspondence that helped them maintain their relationship. I enjoyed the story and though it did a great job highlighting the stark differences in their realities in the two countries. I wish more was shared about the politics between Israel and Palestine, instead of it being alluded to, but did like how honest the authors were about sharing the dangers in this part of the world. I also found the discussion about imprisonment being normal and almost a right of passage to be very interesting.
Anaele lives in Liege Belgium.In 2008 her sister, Delphine, leaves to live and work in Bethlehem, Palestine for ten moths. This graphic novel shares their experience living so far apart, and the correspondence that helped them maintain their relationship. I enjoyed the story and though it did a great job highlighting the stark differences in their realities in the two countries. I wish more was shared about the politics between Israel and Palestine, instead of it being alluded to, but did like how honest the authors were about sharing the dangers in this part of the world. I also found the discussion about imprisonment being normal and almost a right of passage to be very interesting.
Amazing travelogue, if you could call it that, of a Anaele's letters to her sister back in Belgium, of her time as an NGO in Palestine. She lives on the side of the wall. She sees what is going on from the Palestinians point of view. One of the most striking things she hears over and over is that, oh, it is normal.
Oh, it is normal to be shot, if you go outside, on a hill.
Or, it is normal to come face to face with a solider when you are walking in a shopping area.
One reviewer didn't like the little light postcards that mark each new section that came from Anaele's sister. Little things like watching the barges, or smelling the flowers.
Sad, gripping, and well written. Held my attention when I should have been working, and just wanted to peak at how it was, for later, don't you know, and then found myself reading the whole thing.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
Oh, it is normal to be shot, if you go outside, on a hill.
Or, it is normal to come face to face with a solider when you are walking in a shopping area.
One reviewer didn't like the little light postcards that mark each new section that came from Anaele's sister. Little things like watching the barges, or smelling the flowers.
Sad, gripping, and well written. Held my attention when I should have been working, and just wanted to peak at how it was, for later, don't you know, and then found myself reading the whole thing.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
at least grapples with the occupation.
but also tired of yt travel narratives in palestine/other occupied areas.
but also tired of yt travel narratives in palestine/other occupied areas.
Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine is a true story depicted in graphic novel format.
Anaële Hermans traveled from her home in Belgium to Palestine to volunteer with an aid organization. During that time she exchanged letters with her sister Delphine back home. Green Almonds brings these letters to life as a graphic novel.
During her time there, Anaële goes back and forth between Palestine and Israel, befriending people in both places, experiencing life on both sides of a physical wall between cities, and witnessing the violence that happens in occupied territories.
This book was originally published in France in 2011. There it received the Doctors Without Borders Award for best travel diary highlighting the living conditions of populations in precarious situations.
I definitely recommend Green Almonds, especially for people who like memoir, travel writing, and social justice issues.
Anaële Hermans traveled from her home in Belgium to Palestine to volunteer with an aid organization. During that time she exchanged letters with her sister Delphine back home. Green Almonds brings these letters to life as a graphic novel.
During her time there, Anaële goes back and forth between Palestine and Israel, befriending people in both places, experiencing life on both sides of a physical wall between cities, and witnessing the violence that happens in occupied territories.
This book was originally published in France in 2011. There it received the Doctors Without Borders Award for best travel diary highlighting the living conditions of populations in precarious situations.
I definitely recommend Green Almonds, especially for people who like memoir, travel writing, and social justice issues.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, War
A bit boring. Treading well worn ground with no new voice.