In the Orchard, the Swallows - Softcover

Hobbs, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160945183X ISBN 13: 9781609451837

Verlag: EUROPA ED, 2014

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"Hobbs writes with clarity and purity" -- The Daily Telegraph

"Beautifully crafted, tender and very, very moving" -- The Daily Mail

"The story is equally a testament to the endurance of love, loyalty and hope." -- The Independent

"This is simple yet breathtaking storytelling." -- The Globe and Mail

"A beautiful, often painful, journey of a young man's doomed yearning for love ... I immensely enjoyed this fine novel." - The Guardian

Praise for In the Orchard, the Swallows

"A perfectly cut jewel of a book."
--The Financial Times

"In fine, burnished prose, Hobbs takes the reader on a beautiful, often painful, journey of a young man's doomed yearning for love... I immensely enjoyed this fine novel."
--The Guardian

"Hobbs makes beautiful writing look simple; his sentences are clean, spare, unladen with excess baggage, and yet they shine like jewels... This is a simple tale, beautifully told."
--The Independent on Sunday

"[Peter Hobbs] speaks of the indomitability of the human heart and of the salvation of the imagination when nothing else remains."
--The Financial Times

"Hobbs strips his story to its essentials and, in doing so, creates a remarkably moving parable of the perennial conflict between love and power."
--The Sunday Times

Reseña del editor:

During a village wedding in Pakistan, an unnamed boy risks speaking to the beautiful daugther of a powerful local politician. As night falls, the two meet in his father's orchard, inadvertently falling asleep waiting for the light of dawn to reveal the orchard's beauty, naïve to the dangers that await their innocent mistake.
As first light approaches, and the girl's father realizes the young couple's mutual attraction, he imprisons the boy without explanation or the benefit of a trial. Fifteen years later, the boy—now a man—is released without a word. Bereft of family and weakened from years of abuse, he collapses on the side of the road and is taken in by a kindly scholar. As time passes, the man recovers enough to take daily walks to his father's now abandoned orchard, where he last saw his young beloved among the trees, beneath soaring, fluttering swallows.

In clear, crystalline prose, Peter Hoobs reveals the ability of the human spirit to conquer the random cruelties of life, and how the power of love and hope, once known, can never truly be extinguished.

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• Verlag: EUROPA ED
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 160945183X
• ISBN 13: 9781609451837
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160