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Adiós a China
Catorce mil kilómetros por un gigante en transformación
by Suso Mourelo
At the end of the 20th century, Suso Mourelo, made a hiatus in his activity as a teacher, reporter and scriptwriter to undertake a trip through China that would turn his plans for the future and his life itself upside down. It traveled nearly 15,000 kilometers in all types of transport, reaching Tibetan villages in the eastern mountains, villages of ethnic minorities in the borderlands, places abandoned by development, villages anchored in tradition, and industrial centers and cities in after modernity. http://interfolio.es/Actual/Entradas/2009/10/21_ADIOS_A_CHINA.html An exceptional witness to the moments before the vertiginous change of the Asian giant, the author, thanks to his clear vision of the world and his peculiar way of traveling, draws a portrait of a China that was beginning to be what we know today, at the same time lived a China that will never return. Suso Mourelo is the author of dozens of stories, hundreds of journalistic reports, and several travel books. He has recently published The Western Frontier, The Alphabet of an Immigrant, and The Five Tombs of Genghis Khan.
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Travel & TransportThe Nature of Silence
Nine months among a hundred inhabitants
by Suso Mourelo
In Spain, far from the cities, there are eighty thousand villages with less than one hundred inhabitants. Its inhabitants grow older and the shutters of many houses are only opened in summer. Suso Mourelo drew a circle on the map and lived for nine months in four of those villages. In these very different landscapes, in their paths, forests and mountains, the author went around to see, touch and hear the intense voice of silence. This book is a personal and literary look at a world perhaps in extinction. Faithful to the poetic and evocative style that distinguishes him, Mourelo offers us an encounter with those who live in almost empty villages and invites us to celebrate that nature, demanding and silent, that shelters them.
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Travel & TransportOn Ise’s Ship
A Literary Journey across Japan
by Suso Mourelo
Suso Mourelo travels throughout Japan. He visits big cities and quiet rural enclaves, with the goal of discovering the places where the novels of his favorite authors took place. We roam the Tokyo of the accursed writer, Osamu Dazai or the small island of Kamishima that served as an inspiration for Yukio Mishima; the Kyoto of Junichirô Tanizaki’s fetish stories or the mountain refuge in which Yasunari Kawabata set Snow Country. With this literary universe as a point of reference, the author wanders across the country, whilst engaging its people, living in the intimacy of their homes, and while he probes the circumstances of a society that is experiencing an amazing mutation. Mourelo creates a story that, in the manner of a long haiku, guides us through the literary memory by the sheer force of sensations and present-day images.
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Travel & TransportThe Time of Hiroshima
by Suso Mourelo
Hiroshima must be approached from the present. In the city of the six branches, which traces the Otâ river until it dissolves in the Seto inland sea, the open wound inflicted on humanity, the one that Kenzaburo Ôe used to talk, has healed long ago.There are narcissistic and conceited cities, some of them are demanding, others are disloyal, some are ugly and others, flirty. Hiroshima has nothing to brag about and that is why it is not ungrateful, it does not require arriving, but rather being there. If someone thought that he would bow to his story, he did not imagine with what force he would rise again, banishing sadness. This is not a history book, but a singing to life and a chronicle of hope, a story about the human capacity to overcome tragedy and create, out of ashes, life and beauty.
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January 2019Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours
by Suso Henry
Written by Dominican preacher and mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom's Watch upon the Hours, was one of the most successful religious writings of its time. Now it is offered to the English-speaking world in a new translation based on Pius Knzle's critical Latin edition.
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Graphic novels: literary & memoirs2021GREAT OF THE MACABRE
by Joan Boix
Published almost 50 years ago in legendary magazines such as Dossier Negro or S.O.S., Aleta Ediciones recovers 20 horror stories written by the great Joan Boix, some of them based on masterful stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer or Edgar Allan Poe.
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FictionMarch 2019And they say
by Susana Sánchez Aríns
Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression. It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now. Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period. Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story. The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced. The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims. It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice. The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)
