Realism and Fantasy

In literature, both realism an fantasy have limitations, both have aesthetic qualities. A subtle combination of both narrative approaches may give a novel the concreteness of reality as well as the fantasy of the ideal. Such is the case, I surmise, of Under the Walnut Tree.

Not a Symbolic Walnut Tree

Several are the symbolic values traditionally attached to a walnut tree. None of them apply to the old walnut tree in my novel Under the Walnut Tree. Symbolism is not the only way of interpreting the presence of highly significant elements in a novel.

Meet Ari

Meet Ari and is friends tomorrow, Friday, November 15, when I read from my novel Under the Walnut Tree.

Ari´s adventures in growing up

Growing up has never been easy and it has always been exciting. Nobody is alien to the experience of becoming a grown-up, someone who has left behind a period of troubling dreams and discoveries--the time before time, the almost mythical age of childhood and adolescence. Under the Walnut Tree tells the story of a year in the life of Ari, a teen ager boy whose questioning mind and loving heart drive him to incredible actions.