by Albert Salvadó · Ediciones El Andén · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492475209
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«La sombra de Alí Bey» is the historical novel by Albert Salvadó, published by Ediciones El Andén in paperback (720 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the life of Domingo Badía, a Barcelona native born in 1767 who, as Alí Bey, traveled the Mediterranean and the Islamic lands as far as Mecca, landed in Tangier and lived his great Moroccan adventure alongside Sultan Sulaimán, ending up in post-Napoleonic Paris. The plot combines pleasure, conspiracies and espionage.
The work is divided into three parts covering the journey to Mecca, the period in Morocco and post-Napoleonic Paris; it was published in June 2008.
For readers of historical fiction and biographies of travelers, explorers and legendary figures.
Albert Salvadó i Miras was an Andorran writer and industrial engineer. He wrote children's stories, essays and novels, in both Catalan and Spanish. He was Minister of Culture of Andorra la Vella from 2003 until 2007.
