A novel inspired by Little Women, set around MANCHESTER
In the Orchard, the Swallows
Location(s): Pakistan
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
In the mountain foothills of northern Pakistan, near the snow-capped Afghan passes with their “fluid and unmarked” borders, a teenage boy tends his family’s pomegranate orchard. One day, in the market, he falls in love with the daughter of a local politician. After a wedding party, the pair meet alone among the fruit trees. Discovered, the narrator of Peter Hobbs’s second novel is taken to the bigwig’s house for a beating – but, fatefully, strikes the father back.
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