Like Gold in the River: A Review of Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy, by Gretchen McCullough Book Reviews [email protected] Tue, 02/04/2025 - 15:24 Background photo by Taiga / Adobe Stock / Author photo courtesy of AUC Press Years ago, I visited the Alhambra in Granada and was awestruck by the grand palace and fortress that was built during the historic Islamic period in Spain. Standing on a plateau, the palace overlooks Albaicín, the quarter of the old Moorish city nestled in the nearby hills. I remember thinking at the time that I knew very little about this golden era of Islamic history. Scholar and creative writer Radwa Ashour’s novel Granada gives readers insight into the fabric of daily struggles and drama for ordinary Arabs who lived at the end of Muslim rule in Spain and were persecuted during the Spanish Conquest and Inquisition. This ambitious novel was recognized when it was first published in Arabic in 1994: part 1, Granada, won the Book of the Year at the Cairo International Book Fair. The following year, in 1995, the entire trilogy won first prize for the best book by an Arab woman writer. William Granara’s translation of Granada, published by Syracuse University Press, first made this novel accessible to an English-speaking audience in 2003. More than twenty years later, Hoopoe Press has now published the complete trilogy, Granada, Maryama, and Departure (2024), translated by Kay Heikkinen. Ashour’s... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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