As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go.

This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of Lemon Trees, it features never-before-seen moments between Salama and Kenan.


A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital - helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can't. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left.

Unless you count Khawf. But he's a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she's seen. Every day he urges Salama to leave. Every day she refuses.

Until she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy with the vivid green eyes, who wants to stay and risk his life for everything Syria could be .

Review

This is an important book. Everyone should read it ― Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of Welcome to Nowhere

A searing story of war, loss, family and love, of seeking grace in madness and hope in tragedy ... An absolute must read. ― Sabaa Tahir, #1 NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes

Notable for its evocation of place and time, its rawness and its twist. ― The Times

As gorgeous as it is groundbreaking ... This book is devastatingly beautiful. ― David Arnold, NYT bestselling author of Mosquitoland and The Electric Kingdom

Beautiful, powerful and ringing with emotion, it will stay with you long after you've finished reading. ― Katherine Woodfine, author of the Sinclair's Mysteries and Taylor & Rose Secret Agents

About the Author

Zoulfa Katouh is a Canadian writer with Syrian roots. A trilingual pharmacist, currently pursuing a master's in drug sciences, Zoulfa is the first Syrian author to be published in both the US and the UK in the young adult category. When she's not talking to herself in the woodland forest, she's drinking iced coffee, baking aesthetic cookies and cakes, and telling everyone who will listen about how BTS paved the way. A dream of hers is to get Kim Nam-joon to read one of her books. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow is her debut novel.