Granada
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Granada

The Complete Trilogy

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Granada

The Complete Trilogy

About this book

A TOP 100 LITERARY WORK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (THE ARAB WRITERS UNION) A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF 2024 "A feat of profound scholarship, an examination of how history is invented, imagined and instrumentalized in contrast to how it is experienced and lived. "—Patricia Storace, Times Literary Supplement "A magnum opus of prose fiction"—Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time A multigenerational epic set at the collapse of Muslim rule in Medieval Spain, available now for the first time in a new, complete translation It is 1492, and the keys to Granada, the last Muslim state in the Spanish Peninsula, have been handed over to the Christian king and queen: the final vestiges of this Arab kingdom in Europe are swept away.As the triumphant new masters of Granada burn books, Abu Jaafar, a bookseller by trade, quietly moves his rich library out of town, while preparing for the marriage of his granddaughter Saleema to his apprentice Saad. The tangled lives of Abu Jaafar's family, his descendants, and his community bear witness to the vanquishing of Muslim life: confiscations, forced conversions, and expulsions.Radwa Ashour's sweeping trilogy, set over one hundred years against the backdrop of the great historical events of sixteenth-century Europe, tells the story of those who remained in Andalusia, of the individuals who struggled to maintain faith and hope in a possible future. It narrates a community's effort to comprehend what has happened to them, of their valiant but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to resist the destruction of their identity.Named a top literary work of the twentieth century by the Arab Writers' Union, Granada is now available in English in its entirety for the first time. All three novels— Granada, Maryama and The Departure —are brilliantly retranslated in this outstanding new paperback edition.

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Information

Publisher
Hoopoe
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781649033765
eBook ISBN
9781649033789

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Granada
  8. Maryama
  9. The Departure
  10. Translator’s Note