What happens when all the stars above are wrong and the earth below is out of place? For Miguel a young boy from a poor village in Mexico, he dreams of being an astronomer someday. That dream seems as distant as the moon is from the earth, yet opportunity can come in ways never expected. Miguel knows that as long as he keeps a good idea of where he is, the truth of life will reveal itself. Join Miguel in an adventure that will take him to places he never thought he would be.
Genre: FICTION / Action & AdventureNewly published.
The distant stars seem so constant to us as we plan and scheme below them. After the sun has dominated the day, the heavens are our reassurance that despite our attempt to manage the affairs on the Earth, they are the same. They provide us comfort in the pitch of a black sky. While our sun gives life to all things on our planet the distant suns play their part in our lives and in nature as rhythm and signs. It is in that night air that a twelve-year-old boy name Miguel Ortiz sits on the rocks and stares at the stars as he ponders.
“The stars are near and far yet they seem to make shapes. If constellations are real then it must mean God is here with us making them so we can all see them that way,” he mutters to himself.
A distant voice of his dad Manuel cries out, “Miguel! Come home!”
“Coming!” Miguel yells back as he continues to look up at the night sky. I wonder what else is up there? he thinks.
Miguel runs back home which is a small village on a plateau back dropped by distant mountains. They live in the state of Michoacán, Mexico and their little village goes by the name of Las Oilas which is almost a primitive community of thirty-four residents. They live a simple life with no modern appliances, no cellphones, no TV – nothing to connect them to the world as you and I know it in the 1990s. They have been there for seven generations living in an arid, desert area with no real discernable form or landmark to speak of. Even the mountains in the distant seem non-descriptive. They perform their daily tasks of growing vegetables and tending to chickens, cows and sheep for their livelihood and food stores. One well in the center of town provides all the life-giving fluid they need. It is simple but in certain ways paradise, as no one bothers them from the outside.
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Italian
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Already translated.
Translated by Liming Yu
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Author review: Fantastic job! |
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Portuguese
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Translation in progress.
Translated by renan sergio ferreira de almeida
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by María Gabriela Guzmán Miguel
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Author review: Wonderful, timely, professional. Can not say enough! |
