Authorpreneur Dashboard – Justin Fenech
Too Many Sparrows In Zaragoza
Literature & Fiction
How far can the good life go before it turns bad? This is the moral issue Nadi, the young psychologist from Malta, is made to face when she visits her old friend in Zaragoza. What starts off as a relaxing holiday soon becomes a revelation. The charismatic Maltese ex-pat Luis, her host in Zaragoza, has stumbled upon a lifestyle replete with eccentricities and the imagination. He is living a hedonistic, aesthetic, liberal life with a group of like-minded Spaniards. A group of young people rebelling against life's boring routine. They want to enrich their lives with constant beauty, inspired by Romans, Greeks, nature, al-Andalus, theatre and everything else life has to offer. Nadi is instantly taken in. She adopts Luis' lifestyle. But at what cost? In a time when traditional values and modern principles are colliding more and more, this is a relevant examination of moral values in the 21st century. All in the backdrop of rich, charming and regal Zaragoza.
Book Bubbles from Too Many Sparrows In Zaragoza
The first Enlightenment
This is the first chapter of the novel where Nadia arrives in Zaragoza. She meets Luis and she astounded by how changed he is. And she has no idea how much he has truly changed. The highlight of this chapter is when Luis takes Nadia around his flat. Luis' flat is an extension of his imaginative, aesthetic and eccentric personality. Each room in Luis' flat is titled. It has a theme and a style, as if it were a painting and a story. For example his room is entitled 'Calle Milagro de Calanda' which refers to a miracle that happened in a nearby village, where a soldier was said to have had his amputated leg miraculously grown back by the interecession of the Virgin of Calanda. Luis is not a religious man, but his spirituality is his life.
