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The Roots of the Guava Tree
- Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Roots of the Guava Tree af Sonia Daccarett, 9781647429409
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781647429409
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1647429404
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
14,0 x 21,7 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
21 aug 2025
Forfatter(e):

The Roots of the Guava Tree

- Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country. 

Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s. When she asks her parents questions about their family’s ethnicity and religion they answer evasively, defining their family religion and ethnicity as “nothing.” Grandparents and family members who speak Yiddish, Hebrew, and Arabic and fled from places called the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Bethlehem, and the Ottoman Empire, does not sound like “nothing” to Sonia.

At the same time, Sonia grapples with her American education at school. She is both enchanted and challenged by the tropical landscape of her childhood in a remote suburb of Cali, which is rapidly changing as cocaine trafficking and drug cartels begin to dominate the city’s life.

As she tries to discover what her family is, Colombia begins unraveling around her through violence, kidnappings, and the death of acquaintances and friends. At the same time, her parents’ marriage and their personal identities are rocked by the faraway Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Soon, she will have to decide whether to stay in Colombia with her family or leave them behind to find the answers she seeks.





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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781647429409
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1647429404
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
14,0 x 21,7 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
21 aug 2025
Forfatter(e):
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