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Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine (2011)

di Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans

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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… (altro)
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"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down."

What I've learned from Robert Frost, World War Z, and Green Almonds: walls are good when fending off zombies; not so much in other circumstances, when the human tendency to dehumanize everyone and everything that isn't our own tribe is made all the easier when we don't even have to look at them anymore. ( )
  slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 |
This book is geared to a young reader. Although the topic is complex, the observations are simple and direct. ( )
  beebeereads | Sep 6, 2021 |
A Belgian woman travels to Bethlehem in 2008 for a sort of Christian pilgrimage with the intent of staying for several months amongst the Palestinians to do some vague volunteer educational work of some kind. She loves the people and the place, painting them most sympathetically -- even having a romantic interest in one -- and contrasting their desire for freedom and safety with the Israeli walls, checkpoints, soldiers and settlers. The story unfolds in letters and postcards exchanged with her sister back in Belgium.

It's been a decade since her trip, and it is sad to realize how little the situation has changed in the interim.

Regardless, the story is a dull, limited in its scope, and smacks of white privilege and some of the negative aspects of voluntourism. The art is too primitive and childlike for my taste and is drawn by the sister who didn't actually visit Palestine, so I assume she is working from photo reference or pure imagination.

Meh. ( )
  villemezbrown | Aug 29, 2021 |
I think this may be the first epistolary graphic novel I've ever run across. It was a really neat way to tell the story - letters between two sisters, one in Belgium and one volunteering in Palestine. The book shows the lives of ordinary people in Gaza and it's absolutely heartbreaking. The dichotomy between the lives of Anaële's Palestinian friends vs her Israeli friends is stark.

Delphine's illustrations are simple but effective in managing to convey both her sister's outsider status, and the harsh reality of the wall and security checkpoints.

A really effective and evocative graphic novel.

Review copy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley. ( )
  wisemetis | Dec 6, 2020 |
Interesting story about a woman going to Palestine and Jerusalem and telling her sister what is going on and her experiences through post cards. The story irritated me because not enough information about the conflict was given to give the story context and comes off as look what this European tourist went through and witnessed. I liked the simplicity in the art work. The whole post card thing felt unnecessary because the sisters didn’t really acknowledge what the other was saying in her letters. ( )
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This is a story about two sisters, one who lives in Liège, in Belgium, and the other who leaves to live and work in Palestine for ten months.
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Hey, Nan,
You're leaving soon . . . when I told people "My sister's leaving for Bethlehem," it seemed so far away. But now it's so real.
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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

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