Granada: The Complete Trilogy

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 TimeA multigenerational epic set at the collapse of Muslim rule in Medieval Spain, available now for the first time in a new, complete translationIt 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, a