The Emperor

XVIIth century China was an immense space convulsed by wars in which it was difficult to identify enemies. But it was also a land with great hopes and millennial traditions.

And here we meet Suen, a simple guy who, driven by an uncontrollable curiosity, leaves his town to cross the whole country with a stated objective: to see the great Emperor. His is a struggle to learn and to understand, and he slowly gives up atavistic feelings and realizes what drives his world to ruin. It's the journey of a lifetime. Suen's great adventure is not a historical novel. It's a fable. The fable about learning and the cruelty of the struggle for power.

The Emperor is one of the central works of Jordi Coca, one of the main authors of the last decades in Catalonia.

«The emperor must be read and reread because it would be a sacrilege not to enjoy the Coca prose line by line [...] The emperor has so many literary virtues that it almost obvious to say that in twenty years it will be even better» (Pons Puigdevall, El País)