Here we present to you!

How difficult to talk about new books in the Rural Libraries Network without mentioning our dear brother Alfredo Mires! On Friday 14th April, we launched three new publications thanks to the immense legacy he left us.

Living Stones, Living Peoples: Rock Art and Andean Prehistory, a book presented by our brother Abel Vásquez, a volunteer of the Network. He, as a companion of Alfredo in so many of his walks, knows closely the feelings that this book transmits, that filial, affective and transcendent relationship of man with nature that Alfredo perceived and conceived in his tireless walks. Don Abel highlighted "the author's ability to understand and help people understand that the stones where the prints of our grandparents are, have life and inspire our communities".

Pedro Urdemales from Cajamarca. Nathalie Estrada illustrated and presented this valuable gift in which Alfredo introduces us to this mischievous and deceitful character. A Trickster, as we would say. A book to enjoy and to learn much more about the relationship between our culture and other cultures of the world. Nathalie tells us that these stories are not alien to us, they came to our communities, they found a place and many of us grew up listening to them. So it will be in our memory what our grandparents and parents told us about that little donkey that urinated silver coins, or that swindler who drank all the water from the well under the promise of finding a rich cheese, which was nothing more than the reflection of the full moon. These were some of the tricks of Pedro, whom Alfredo Mires called the "weaver of profits".

Being community folk. Don Grimaldo Rengifo, Alfredo's friend of many years and many walks, was the one who presented this book, which is part of our series 'We the Cajamarcans'. Grimaldo points out very clearly and forcefully the content of Ser comuneros and mentions: testimonies, challenges, and the call to affirm the community. How is it that this book reintegrates what has been discussed in the network over the years about the meaning of community. It emphasises the concept of ayllu, the relationship of everything that exists in the community, the relationship of humans with nature and how everything becomes part of the family. It is made clear that the concept of community is much broader than the sense of society.

To find out more about these three new book members of the family, visit us at the Rural Library Network.