A Bird, When It Lands, Never Stops Flying - Eduardo Sá

A Perching Bird Never Stops Flying

It all happened exactly five years ago. When I woke up, I was lying on my hand, unable to feel my legs and without even the strength to move my arm and pull it out from under me. It wasn't the first time I'd fainted, and I realised, at that moment, what was happening to me: I had just fractured my spine.

However, life had just crashed down on me, as I processed everything that was happening and imagined the day after the day after tomorrow. Later I realised that, in a hospital, suffering transforms us into the loneliest, most helpless and most vulnerable people in the universe. It was then, for the first time in my life, that I stopped feeling like a person.

And I told myself that I was just a particle of the cosmos that, — nuisance of nuisances — nevertheless, thought. Between memory and reflection, A Perching Bird Never Stops Flying is an intimate and profoundly human testimony about fragility, hope, passion for life and the courage to carry on when all seems lost.

Work details

• Author: Eduardo Sá
• Publisher: Penguin
• Category: General and Literary Fiction
• Number of pages: 256
• Cover: Paperback