Where Eagles Nest
A foreign land, a dilapidated house and a lockdown, what more could you ask for?
When Ema, a Czech emigrant living in the Netherlands, and her partner Bas decide to buy an abandoned farmstead in the Spanish mountains of Las Alpujarras, she believes a new, idyllic chapter of their lives is beginning. However, instead of a rose garden, immediately after a dramatic departure in the middle of the first wave of the pandemic and a strict lockdown, she finds herself plunged into a relentless battle with damp, a broken heating system, and an overgrown jungle instead of a garden. But she quickly realises that more difficult than the work on the land is Bas's emotional wall he has built around himself, and her own fear of abandonment, turning the search for a nest into a journey for inner freedom.
Ema Šindelářová
Ema Šindelářová was born in South Bohemia in 1966 and grew up in Blatná. In 1991, she moved to the Netherlands, where she began to study homeopathy and writing. She publishes in both Dutch and Czech. Her first novel Tranen van een feniks (2021) was published in Czech under the title Jako tažní ptáci (2023). Her second book, Feniks op de finca (2023), will be published in Czech by Argo under the title Kde hnízdí orli. She is also the author of the humorous book Dvojnožci jsou pitomí, deník kocoura Mojo (Bipeds are stupid, the diary of Mojo the cat) and collections of short stories. For the last five years, she has lived mainly in the Spanish mountains, where she looks after a finca with olive and almond trees.
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ARGO, spol. s r.o., Milíčova 13, Praha 3, Česká republika, 222 782 260, [email protected] 
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