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The Seed of Rosewood (English Edition)
The Seed of Rosewood is a historical novel (many of the characters are real), set in 1715 in Scotland, the Caribbean and London, which narrates through the diary written by the protagonist (Patrick Douglas, a 15 year old boy), the events that he, in spite of himself, will have to face. Grown up on a Scottish farm in the fields overlooking the North Sea, one morning he is torn from the warmth of his family, until then his only affection reference, and thrown into a world that will upset his young mind.
He will immediately have to find the strength to survive by clinging desperately to the hope that he will be able to embrace his loved ones again one day, but the thousands ocean miles and the terrible experiences he will suffer, will make the balance of his inner conflict tilt several times towards the abyss of resignation.
Like the figurehead of a ship in the storm he will face the dark and fierce contradictions of life, his eyes will clearly see the border, made of cruelty, greed, depravity and superstition, which separates the legend from the violent reality of a tropical paradise infested with bloodthirsty demons.
The West Indies, a sort of laboratory created by God to verify one of his most precious gifts, free will, and to check how far man would have gone in using it. Imagine for a moment the gaze of a Scottish boy, accustomed to the island of Aunt Ellen - a gloomy and misty piece of land that rises obstinately against the grey waves of the North Sea, lashed by winds and freezing rain- who stands in front of the door to the New World.
Think of his amazement as he observes San Salvador, a green and bright garden that is not opposed to the ocean but is part of it like a flower in a meadow, framed by white beaches caressed by waves of a turquoise sea.
Here he will meet a long parade of human beings involved in the eternal clash between justice and injustice, slavery and freedom, mercy and cruelty, forgiveness and fierce revenge.
Individuals far from the folkloric and cinematographic characters of the Pirates of the Caribbean, men that today any psychiatrist would not hesitate to define case studies of sadistic maniacs, suffering from compulsive obsessive disorders.
He will get to know both domineering and inadequate men such as Captain Alexander, who will lead him to experience for the first time true hatred or the repulsive old man at the slave auction in Port Royal, who will provoke a fierce and courageous rebellion in him, as well as wise men, as good as the ex-brother Abram, who will prove crucial for his life.
It will be the echo of his words that will give him the strength to go on: “But dear Patrick, never lose hope.
As well as meeting a multitude of wicked people, you will meet the unexpected goodness of a few”.
Unexpectedly, he will meet across the ocean Rob, the giant Welsh farrier of his village, who he had greeted on that fateful morning that would have changed his life forever.
After losing his young niece, who was the victim of the raid by the same crew of criminals who kidnapped Patrick, Rob joined a group of vindictive descendants of the first Vikings who landed in England, who had suffered the same brutality.
He would come across him in extraordinary circumstances, to say the least and from him he would hear, to his desperation, that because of an exchange of person, they believed him dead at home, and in the small cemetery of the village a plaque bears his name.
He will get to know personally Edward Teach known as Blackbeard, Benjamin Horniglod and Samuel Bellamy, who were actually at that precise historical moment in the port of Nassau in the Bahamas.
He will describe their physical appearance, character and their death.
Others, such as the ferocious Jean David Nau, better known by the nickname of François l'Olonnais, Daniel Monbars, famous as Monbars the exterminator of Spaniards, or Sir Henry Morgan, a buccaneer who became vice governor of Jamaica, he will only hear of through those who had met them.
An enigmatic message, a market where he will meet the dismayed eyes of African slaves, who survived the hellish crossing of the Atlantic and were sold as cattle, will lead him to meet Ima, the young mixed-race girl of his age, who grew up in a plantation in Martinique and was offered for sale in Port Royal.
The boy, due to a series of incredible combinations of events, will give her the most precious gift from God to men, freedom, which will lead him to the discovery of a still unripe and unknown feeling in his young heart, love.
But once again fate will rage against him, extinguishing his obstinate attachment to life like the flame of a candle in a storm.
It will be the gloomy cells of the terrible prison of Newgate, and a hopeless trial, to sanction the loss of all that until then he had kept in his heart, namely the love just born and the illusion of being able to return one day to his family.
For him the darkest hour of the night had struck, that of resignation, but as the stars are made even brighter by the darkness of the sky, he will learn that it will be the small flashes of good that light up during our life to show us the way.
Patrick's story takes on the clear colours of hope and I can only share his words about it: “As it was for the seed of the rosewood, fruit of the earth, goodness, fruit of the soul, sometimes overcomes time.
Aided by a plot of events, which some call fortunate coincidences, others call God's help, sprouts and flourishes”.
He will immediately have to find the strength to survive by clinging desperately to the hope that he will be able to embrace his loved ones again one day, but the thousands ocean miles and the terrible experiences he will suffer, will make the balance of his inner conflict tilt several times towards the abyss of resignation.
Like the figurehead of a ship in the storm he will face the dark and fierce contradictions of life, his eyes will clearly see the border, made of cruelty, greed, depravity and superstition, which separates the legend from the violent reality of a tropical paradise infested with bloodthirsty demons.
The West Indies, a sort of laboratory created by God to verify one of his most precious gifts, free will, and to check how far man would have gone in using it. Imagine for a moment the gaze of a Scottish boy, accustomed to the island of Aunt Ellen - a gloomy and misty piece of land that rises obstinately against the grey waves of the North Sea, lashed by winds and freezing rain- who stands in front of the door to the New World.
Think of his amazement as he observes San Salvador, a green and bright garden that is not opposed to the ocean but is part of it like a flower in a meadow, framed by white beaches caressed by waves of a turquoise sea.
Here he will meet a long parade of human beings involved in the eternal clash between justice and injustice, slavery and freedom, mercy and cruelty, forgiveness and fierce revenge.
Individuals far from the folkloric and cinematographic characters of the Pirates of the Caribbean, men that today any psychiatrist would not hesitate to define case studies of sadistic maniacs, suffering from compulsive obsessive disorders.
He will get to know both domineering and inadequate men such as Captain Alexander, who will lead him to experience for the first time true hatred or the repulsive old man at the slave auction in Port Royal, who will provoke a fierce and courageous rebellion in him, as well as wise men, as good as the ex-brother Abram, who will prove crucial for his life.
It will be the echo of his words that will give him the strength to go on: “But dear Patrick, never lose hope.
As well as meeting a multitude of wicked people, you will meet the unexpected goodness of a few”.
Unexpectedly, he will meet across the ocean Rob, the giant Welsh farrier of his village, who he had greeted on that fateful morning that would have changed his life forever.
After losing his young niece, who was the victim of the raid by the same crew of criminals who kidnapped Patrick, Rob joined a group of vindictive descendants of the first Vikings who landed in England, who had suffered the same brutality.
He would come across him in extraordinary circumstances, to say the least and from him he would hear, to his desperation, that because of an exchange of person, they believed him dead at home, and in the small cemetery of the village a plaque bears his name.
He will get to know personally Edward Teach known as Blackbeard, Benjamin Horniglod and Samuel Bellamy, who were actually at that precise historical moment in the port of Nassau in the Bahamas.
He will describe their physical appearance, character and their death.
Others, such as the ferocious Jean David Nau, better known by the nickname of François l'Olonnais, Daniel Monbars, famous as Monbars the exterminator of Spaniards, or Sir Henry Morgan, a buccaneer who became vice governor of Jamaica, he will only hear of through those who had met them.
An enigmatic message, a market where he will meet the dismayed eyes of African slaves, who survived the hellish crossing of the Atlantic and were sold as cattle, will lead him to meet Ima, the young mixed-race girl of his age, who grew up in a plantation in Martinique and was offered for sale in Port Royal.
The boy, due to a series of incredible combinations of events, will give her the most precious gift from God to men, freedom, which will lead him to the discovery of a still unripe and unknown feeling in his young heart, love.
But once again fate will rage against him, extinguishing his obstinate attachment to life like the flame of a candle in a storm.
It will be the gloomy cells of the terrible prison of Newgate, and a hopeless trial, to sanction the loss of all that until then he had kept in his heart, namely the love just born and the illusion of being able to return one day to his family.
For him the darkest hour of the night had struck, that of resignation, but as the stars are made even brighter by the darkness of the sky, he will learn that it will be the small flashes of good that light up during our life to show us the way.
Patrick's story takes on the clear colours of hope and I can only share his words about it: “As it was for the seed of the rosewood, fruit of the earth, goodness, fruit of the soul, sometimes overcomes time.
Aided by a plot of events, which some call fortunate coincidences, others call God's help, sprouts and flourishes”.
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