by Anouar Benmalek · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499081298
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«La esclava» is the historical novel by Anouar Benmalek, published by Debolsillo in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
In seventeenth-century Seville, María, a twelve-year-old Morisco girl, is sold into slavery to a Sevillian painter after being orphaned. In his workshop, she struggles between her identity and the customs of a hostile society, while discovering love, betrayal, and the price of freedom.
The original title is Ô María and the translation is by Rosa Solà Maset. The book belongs to the Best Seller collection, no. 808.
For readers of historical fiction interested in seventeenth-century Spain and stories of women fighting for their freedom.
Anouar Benmalek is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. His novel Lovers of Algeria was awarded the Prix Ragid. The novel, The Child of an Ancient People, won the Prix RFO du livre.
