Perdido en el paraíso

Umberto Pasti was forty years old when he began the adventure that he narrates in this book, but nothing had prepared him for what was going to happen to him from the day when, after a long walk around Rohuna -a remote village in the Atlantic coast of northern Morocco-, he fell asleep under a fig tree: upon waking he knew he was in the place where he would establish his dream garden of endangered species. Rohuna was an extreme and inhospitable place, almost inaccessible, without water and without light, but also a unique and solemn place like Eden itself. Only the tenacity and hard work of a gardener could complete the titanic undertaking. Over the years, paradise became a reality despite multiple difficulties, and Rohuna remains today the unique and irreplaceable place where that stranger, the Nazrani, recognized his home and his family. An extraordinary, rare and delicate book that reminds us that the aspiration to beauty is a form of goodness and remains vital to the human being.