Mireia Aixalà recommends a book to delve into the conflict in Northern Ireland.

BarcelonaWhen she was 13 or 14, actress Mireia Aixalà read a book about an IRA terrorist. "I don't remember the title. I was very young and had the idea that terrorists were always bad. With that book, I understood what it meant to be part of a terrorist group. It was a book designed for young people, and it had a big impact on me," the actress recalls. From that moment on, Aixalà has always been drawn to books that explore the Northern Ireland conflict and its repercussions. That's why she can't help but recommend one of the reference titles published in recent years: Don't say anything, from the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (Periscope), translated into Catalan by Ricard Gil. A combination of journalistic investigation and essay, the book chronicles five decades of the conflict through the eyes of two former members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), a victim of the paramilitary organization, and one of the key figures in the political mediation effort to achieve peace between supporters of Irish unification and loyalists. Don't say anything It was a huge international success and It was adapted for television, with a series released last year.

"It's a very well-researched book, but at the same time very fictionalized. I'm especially interested in Radden Keefe because of his writing," says Aixalà. She has also read by the same author. The empire of pain (Periscope). "I also recommend it. It may be a heavier read, but it's very interesting because of the subject matter it addresses," says the actress, who premiered this summer. the show Grand Canyon in La Villarroel. In The empire of painIn , Radden Keefe delves into the effects of OxyContin, an opioid sold as a painkiller that has caused thousands of deaths and millions of addicts in the United States, and the involvement of the Sackler family, responsible for producing and promoting this drug.