More By and About This Author. Staples presents a nuanced understanding of the Afghan culture that should be valuable to anyone outsider seeking to understand it. Read more. Together, they both seek their way home. Under the Persimmon Tree may be a YA novel, but it does not flinch from the harsh realities of that conflict. Under the Persimmon Tree is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. And Nusrat’s persimmon-tree school awaits Najmah’s arrival. Known for her award-winning fiction set in South Asia, Suzanne Fisher Staples revisits that part of the world in this beautifully written, heartrending novel. Staples presents a nuanced understanding of the Afghan culture that should be valuable to anyone outsider seeking to understand it. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUN 20, 2005. PW: Suzanne Fisher Staples: Under … At the same time, the story of Nusrat, (originally named Elaine) who is a blonde white girl from New York, who met and married Faiz, a doctor from Afghanistan. ARTICLES. Under the Persimmon Tree is about Najmah, a girl of about eleven, who watches the Talaban kidnap her father and brother, and later her mother and baby brother are killed in an air raid. Under the Persimmon Tree may be a YA novel, but it does not flinch from the harsh realities of that conflict. Helpful. Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, TN Intermed Volunt State Book Award ML, NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice A. ML, Parents' Choice Award Winner, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Georgia Peach Book Award Master List, NYPL Books for … Families are torn apart, loved ones are killed, people are uprooted from their lands and the suffering seems to have no end. Here, the author … Helpful.

Having already shown a profound understanding of Middle-Eastern culture in books such as Shabanu and Shiva's Fire, Staples offers readers a new level of insight in this timely portrayal of Afghanistan in the months following September 11. Under the Persimmon Tree is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Childrens Book of the Year. Under the Persimmon Tree is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Read more. FSG/Foster $17 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-38025-0 . Under the Persimmon Tree Suzanne Fisher Staples, Author. Families are torn apart, loved ones are killed, people are uprooted from their lands and the suffering seems to have no end.