Under the Almond Tree

by Laura McVeigh

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Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.… (more)

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Wat een beestig goed boek! Het gaat niet alleen over Afghanistan, oorlog, ... Het boek geeft veel meer dan andere, gelijkaardige verhalen aandacht voor de emoties en de copingsmechanismen die het hoofdpersonage helpen overeind te blijven. Het is ook één van de weinige boeken waarin de leefsituatie in vluchtelingenkampen (in Pakistan) aan bod komt.
Het boek werd ook al uitgegeven onder de titel "Het huis van de amandelboom". (

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ArtieVeerle | Oct 25, 2022 |

De vijftienjarige Afsana vlucht met haar familie voor de taliban uit Afghanistan, een vlucht die met veel ontberingen gepaard gaat. (

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McVeigh, Laura	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Goga-Klinkenberg, Susanne	Übersetzer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Under the Almond Tree

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2017-02-23

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Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.

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If you lost everything you loved, how would you survive and begin again?

Under the Almond Tree tells the story of one refugee family fleeing conflict and war in Afghanistan in the 1990s as they travel towards freedom and safety.

Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it. Throughout, our storyteller Samar bravely holds onto family and hope, often when all survival seems impossible.

With the true strength that comes from love, learning and imagination, Samar reveals her extraordinary resilience and the discovery that anything may be possible – if you can just hold on to hope and love.

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