by Antonio Gala · Editorial Planeta, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432070228
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«El manuscrito carmesí» is the historical novel by Antonio Gala, published in 1990 by Editorial Planeta in hardback (611 pages, in Spanish).
Boabdil, last sultan of Granada, narrates in the first person the memories he sets down on the crimson papers of the Alhambra: childhood, the weight of the throne, family quarrels, the passions and betrayals that marked the end of the Nasrid kingdom.
It won the Premio Planeta in 1990. The novel is set in 15th-century Granada, during the reign of Muhammad XI (Boabdil).
For readers of historical fiction interested in the decline of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada and the figure of Boabdil.
Antonio Gala Velasco was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer.
