The Myrtle Tree: A Novel of Love and Dreams in War-torn Lebanon

Young Adam Awad, his wife, and daughter live in a remote village in the Lebanese countryside where there are no vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no history of arms and bloodshed. He wants to restore his fathers olive press house and live an idyllic life farming in peace, but it is 1976 and the civil war is closing in. The village becomes divided, but still Adam is determined to find a way to stop the escalation.