The boy who sailed to Spain by O´garra, Paul

The boy who sailed to Spain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517701062)

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The boy who sailed to Spain by O´garra, Paul

The boy who sailed to Spain

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The boy who sailed to Spain by O´garra, Paul

The boy who sailed to Spain

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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The gripping story of a young man s unswerving belief in himself and what he stands for. When his father is assaulted and beaten to within inches of his life, Moon sails his tiny catamaran into the face of a storm to carry out his enigmatic last wishes and find a mysterious person. A searing indictment of today's Western World as seen through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old boy travelling alone in the Spain of 2015, on a life or death mission. His values forged in an archaic Christian setting yet coloured by the Islamic cradle of his birth. His striving for the good while beset with evils today inherent in all Western society, sexual depravity, over-available pornography, drugs, racism, all of which he rejects and fights against. He is pursued in his quest by the organised forces of evil representing the heinous and insidious power of those giants of commerce, money, and power, and also by a blind authority which has taken its cue to pursue him from the lies of a bad woman.He is befriended by people from one of those oases of light springing up in the West to counter the negative, and with their help is able to continue on his road towards the light.An action and adventure story full of mystical and metaphysical happenings.Set in North Africa and Spain in 2015. Masuhun s family have been Christians since before Islam was born, since the time of Augustine of Hippo and the presence of the Romans. They live in North Africa where he follows his father s every footstep loving him and his company at every opportunity. Till one day after the celebration of house mass, in the night hooded men come to their home. In spite of the boy s reckless intervention, they brutally slay his father, Afra. On his deathbed Afra charges the boy with going to the stone, in Europe, on which stand the Mother and Child. There to implore her to once again succour their people as she has done through the millennia in times of persecution and slaughter. The next morning as the sun rises, the distraught boy prepares his tiny craft, with the reluctant aid of an old friend of his father who guards the boats. They launch him into perilous seas where a heavy levanter is blowing. He is rescued by a Gibraltarian tugboat. He arrives in Spain at El Coto Doñana and starts to follow his road to obey his father s wishes. His meeting with an ancient hooded nun at the historical town of Jimena de La Frontera gives him the knowledge that all that has happened so far is by no means fortuitous. Finally the Spanish Para-military police the Guardia Civil also begin to conduct a national manhunt for the boy Entwined in the story is the Spain of the year seven eleven. The Berber general Tariq defeats the Visigoth king and the rule of the caliphate of Al Andaluz begins. In 1309 the Spanish king Ferdinand embarks on the recapture of Spain, conquers Gibraltar, and our story begins. Masuhun ever faithful to his father s memory continues his quest now with the help of two children he be-friends, and their families and colleagues. The military and Special Forces backgrounds of his new allies come at the moment when he needs miracles to assist him carrying out his father s desires. His dreams and the people he has met along the road slowly start to show him that faith does move mountains.

Author: Paul O´garra
ISBN-10: 1517701066
ISBN-13: 9781517701062
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2015
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d
By Paul O´garra
By Paul O´garra
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Paul OGarra was born in Gibraltar on the 8th may 1952. His father, Louis, was a British schoolteacher who served with the Royal artillery on the Rock. He married Teresa Azzopardi and they had four children of whom Paul was the third. The journey of discovery that had begun with Baba the Elephant eventually began to grow richer as the classics were devoured . Paul was educated at Bishop Fitzgerald's school . Subsequently Gibraltar Grammar school. A sometime tour guide of Morocco and of south Spain and eventually running a Flamenco club on the Costa del sol. Paul was to marry and have a family of three girls, own and run businesses in the Uk and Spain. Eventually he set off again to discover new places in the middle and far East and philippines and when the Soviet union was open, set off to discover the East. He studied Russian at St Petersburg and spent time travelling through Russia and the Ukraine from city to city, falling more and more in love with the great Russian writers and painters as he went. Fourteen years ago at the age of fifty Paul contracted Renal cancer . He was operated on successfully at the Bullfighters Hospital in Pamplona in North Spain. The next two years he spent living life to its full in the company of Spanish and Russian friends who had come to find him in hospital just three days after intensive care bringing a ham with them, a post surgery celebration broken up by the timely appearance of the hospital chaplain. Metastasis was practically impossible the surgeons happily reported. Two years later the cancer metastasised to his lungs on which he was duly operated and half of his lungs were removed. Later for reasons undefined he suffered strokes in both eyes and lost partial sight in one eye and total in the left which he duly recovered by swimming and praying. Fourteen years have gone by since his first tussle with the (not so big) and seven years since his last operation and everything is fine, remission seems to be total. He still swims at least one or two kilometres per day all year round, travels, and practises martial arts. After leaving hospital he spent some time in Tangiers, hairless, gaunt and on crutches, but enjoying the warmth and affection of many new friends there. Then off to Prague to study filmmaking. The Boy who sailed to Spain is Paul OGarra´s first published work and will be followed in the new year with a collection of short stories and a second book, making The boy who sailed to Spain the first in a series.

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