by Antonio Gala · Planeta. Barcelona · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422665243
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«El manuscrito carmesí» is a historical novel by Antonio Gala, published by Planeta in hardcover (621 pages, in Spanish).
Boabdil, last sultan of Granada, evokes in a memorial written on the crimson papers of the Alhambra the fall of his kingdom. Antonio Gala recreates his childhood, family struggles, his loves, courtly intrigues and the war that culminates in the conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs.
The work won the Premio Planeta in 1990. This 1997 edition belongs to the Premio Planeta Collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the end of Al-Andalus and the Granada of the Catholic Monarchs.
Antonio Gala Velasco was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer.
