Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore E-Book

Michael Lederer

• Herausgeber: PalmArtPress
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 106

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

"Using Spain of the booming 1980s ashis example, Lederer describes a world,and a pace of life, fast disappearing.Globalization, interconnectivity,modernization and financial pressures arebringing to an end that slower rhythm towhich men and women have moved...forever. In "Nothing Lasts ForeverAnymore", a small family is faced withnew choices as expanding communitiesencircle the little seaside farm on whichthey have lived for generations. Whateverthey decide to do, even having thosechoices means that things will never be thesame."

Leseprobe

Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore

Michael Lederer

Nothing LastsForeverAnymore

With illustrations by Genia Chef

Bibliografische Information der Deutschen NationalbibliothekDie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation inder Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Datensind im Internet über http://www.d-nb.de abrufbar.

The characters in this book are fictitious.Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

ISBN: 978-3-941524-33-0ISBN (E-Book): 978-3-941524-54-5

All rights reservedCopyright © 1985, 1999, 2013 by Michael LedererFirst Edition, Parsifal Ediciones, Barcelona, 1999, ISBN: 84-87265-98-7Spanish Edition, Parsifal Ediciones, Ya nada dura eternamente, 1999, ISBN: 84-87265-99-5

PalmArtPress, 2013, Revised English Edition, ISBN: 978-3-941524-33-0German Edition, 2013, Nichts ist mehr für die Ewigkeit, ISBN: 978-3-941524-32-3German Edition eBook, 2013, ISBN: 978-3-941524-31-6Front cover: Genia Chef, Juan’s World, oil on panel, 1995Illustrations: Genia Chef, pen and sepia ink with juice from Spanish olives, 1999Editor: Catharine J. Nicely

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For Nicholas

Inhalt

Preface

GOOD NEWS

A BITTER FEAST

THY WILL BE DONE

Preface

I wrote this book in 1984 – 85 when I was twenty-eight years old. It was a different Spain in a different world. No Internet, no mobile phones, no satellite dishes on rooftops. A young goatherd still pressed his flock through the little streets of La Herradura, the fishing village where I lived south of Granada. There were fishing boats with nets heaped beside them on the long pebble beach. On nights when there was no moon the light from the stars was so clear it cast shadows on the ground.

But all that was coming to a fast end. Along the Mediterranean coast, towering apartment buildings and hotels were sprouting up as fast as one could scream “Money!” It was not just a century or a millennium coming to a close. Things that once looked like they would last forever…family, faith, the rhythm of life, horizons…all of that was changing.

When I went back to visit La Herradura years later, most of those little boats were gone. The fishermen didn’t mend nets or make fires on that beach anymore. The light from all the new buildings made the stars harder to see. And the goats were gone. Maybe the goatherd had become a real estate agent.

Michael Lederer

Berlin

2013

“All things must pass.”

- George Harrison

GOOD NEWS

It began, at least, like any other day. The sun had not yet risen above the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, and only the white light from the moon and stars shone down on the little cortijo. The cock had already been crowing for an hour or so, and the crickets in the olive trees were chirping back and forth to one another.

Aurelio finished milking the two goats, and now he carried the milk in an old pail down the narrow pathway to the house. The rest of the family was still sleeping, and as he did every morning, so as not to wake them, the old man quietly put the pail down on the wooden table in the kitchen, turned and went back outside.