by Antonio Gala · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408020493
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«El manuscrito carmesí» is the historical novel by Antonio Gala, published by Planeta in paperback (616 pages, in Spanish).
Boabdil, last sultan of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, writes his memoirs in the Chancellery of the Alhambra: the prince's refined education, family feuds and loyalties, courtly intrigues, and the slow decline of the kingdom under pressure from the Catholic Monarchs. A historical fiction approach to the end of Al-Andalus.
Winner of the Premio Planeta in 1990, the novel was originally published that year; the paperback edition dates from 1998.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction interested in Nasrid Granada, the Reconquista, and the end of Al-Andalus.
Antonio Gala Velasco was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer.
