by Anouar Benmalek · Grijalbo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425342806
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«La esclava» is the historical novel by Anouar Benmalek, published by Grijalbo in hardback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Set in seventeenth-century Seville, the novel follows María, a Morisco woman persecuted for her origins and her faith. After an attack on her village, she is sold into slavery and ends up in the home of a Sevillian painter who uses her as a model for erotic portraits. The work recreates the humiliation and suffering of the Morisco community and its struggle for freedom.
The original title of the work is «Ô María». This Spanish edition, translated by Rosa Solà Maset, belongs to the Historical Novel collection.
For readers of historical fiction who want to learn about the persecution of the Morisco community in seventeenth-century Spain.
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.
