by Camilla Gibb · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470054
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«Las murallas de Harar» is the novel by Camilla Gibb, published by Alfaguara in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Lilly is orphaned and grows up with a disciple of the saint Bilal, who teaches her the Quran. At sixteen she travels to Harar, a walled city in Ethiopia; her light skin marks her as a foreigner, but there she learns the life of Muslim women, founds a Quranic school and falls in love. The plot alternates Harar with 1980s London.
This Spanish edition was published in March 2006, translated by José Luis López Muñoz; the original title is 'Sweetness in the Belly'. The work won the Trillium Book Award in 2006.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in Ethiopia, Islam, cultural identity and the experience of being a foreigner.
Camilla Gibb is an English-born Canadian writer who currently resides in Toronto.
