by Antonio Gala · Planeta Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408015123
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«El manuscrito carmesí» is the historical novel by Antonio Gala, published by Planeta Bolsillo in paperback (611 pages, in Spanish).
Boabdil, last sultan of Granada, tells his life in the crimson papers of the Chancellery of the Alhambra. The novel moves from a luminous childhood to the weight of ruling a kingdom in decline, with its affections, passions, family feuds, political intrigues and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom before the Catholic Monarchs.
The novel was originally published in 1990 and won the Planeta Prize that year; this Planeta Bolsillo edition is from 1996.
For readers of historical fiction and Spanish narrative interested in the fall of Granada and the fate of Boabdil, its last sultan.
Antonio Gala Velasco was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer.
