Sunday, 24 June 2012
The end of Eden In the Orchard, the Swallows (NOVEL) By Peter Hobbs
Even among symbolic fruit, the pomegranate carries a weight of allegorical history so heavy that Atlas would be hard-pressed to bear it. In his novel, In the Orchard, the Swallows, Peter Hobbs takes full advantage of this, beginning his story of lost love and loss in a pomegranate orchard, using it as the setting for where love takes a dramatically wrong turn. This story is, like Romeo and Juliet, not a romance: it is a tragedy, and an overwhelming one at that. It is beautiful and
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