by Manuel Pimentel · Umbriel · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489367500
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«El arquitecto de Tombuctú» is the historical novel by Manuel Pimentel, published by Umbriel in hardcover (512 pages, in Spanish).
In 1337, the Granadan Abu Isaq Es Saheli, poet and architect, arrives in Fez as ambassador of Kanku Mussa. After a plot, he writes his traveler's memoirs: childhood in the perfumers' guild of Granada, bohemia, Nasrid exile and pilgrimage through Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Yemen and Mecca, culminating in the great mosque of Timbuktu.
Subtitled «Es Saheli, el granadino», it belongs to the Umbriel historical collection and its original edition dates from 2008.
A read for lovers of historical fiction interested in Al-Andalus, medieval travel and African architecture.
Manuel Ramón Pimentel Siles is a Spanish politician and writer. He served as Minister of Labour and Social of Spain from January 1999 to February 2000. In March 2003, Pimentel abandoned the People's Party (PP) in protest over the Irak War crisis, forming his own party, the Andalusian Forum.
