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Rp 143.507

'UNDER THE BANYAN TREE' is a memoir of an orphan boy who lost his parents before reaching the age of two. Although he and his three sisters, inherited chunks of land with olive and almond trees, yet the orphans lived under subhuman conditions. Many a night they went to bed hungry. As time went on and under the guidance and support of his sister Fatima, the orphan boy became highly educated, earned the title of a doctor as well as a respected scientist. The Banyan tree in the memoir, refers to the spot where the author, the orphan boy, reconnected with his high school sweat heart, when he was a student at the American University of Beirut.
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