by Tariq Ali · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420655697
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«A la sombra del granado» is the historical novel by Tariq Ali, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the kingdom of Granada after the fall of the city in 1492, it narrates the fate of a Muslim family subjected to the conversion decree: between diaspora, concealment and an impossible decision. The novel portrays the final years of a splendid civilization, with the figure of Cardinal Cisneros and the inquisitorial bonfires in the background, as a secular coexistence of cultures and religions erodes.
It is the first installment of the Islam Quintet, originally published under the title «Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree». In the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection it corresponds to number 5635.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction interested in the history of al-Andalus and in coexistence between cultures.
Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He reads Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
