Ema Šindelářová
Ema Šindelářová was born in South Bohemia in 1966 and grew up in Blatná. She moved to the Netherlands in 1991, where she began working in homeopathy and writing. She publishes in both Dutch and Czech. Her debut novel, Tranen van een feniks (2021), appeared in Czech as Jako tažní ptáci (2023). Her second book, Feniks op de finca (2023), will be published in Czech by Argo under the title Kde hnízdí orli. She is also the author of the humorous book Dvojnožci jsou pitomí: Deník kocoura Mojo and several collections of short stories. For the past five years, she has lived primarily in the Spanish mountains, where she tends a finca with olive and almond trees.
Where Eagles Nest
May 2026, 248 pages
Rights available: all territories
Available material: English synopsis and sample translation
When Ema, a Czech émigré living in the Netherlands, decides to buy an abandoned farmstead with her partner Bas in the Spanish mountains of Las Alpujarras, she believes she is embarking on a new, idyllic chapter of her life. But instead of a rose garden, their dramatic departure in the middle of the pandemic’s first wave and a strict lockdown leads her into a relentless struggle with damp, broken heating, and an overgrown jungle where a garden should be. She soon realizes, however, that the hardest obstacles are not the demands of the land, but Bas’s emotional wall against the world and her own fear of abandonment. What began as the search for a home becomes a journey toward inner freedom
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