The Granada Trilogy is a novel trilogy consisting of three novels by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, which are respectively:
Granada
Mariam
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The events take place in the Kingdom of Granada after the fall of all the Islamic kingdoms in Andalusia, and the events of the trilogy begin in 1491, the year in which Granada fell with the announcement of the treaty under which Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Saghir, the last king of Granada, relinquished his possession to the kings of Castile and Aragon, and ended with the violation of its last living heroes, Ali. For the decision to deport Muslims when he discovers that death is in leaving Andalusia and not in staying.
Several editions of the trilogy were issued, the first edition by Dar Al-Hilal in two parts in 1994 and 1995, the second edition by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in 1998, the third edition by Dar Al-Shorouk in 2001, the fourth edition (a special edition for the family library) by Dar Al-Shorouk in 2004, and the fifth edition by Dar Al-Shorouk in 2004. Al Shorouk in 2005.
And in 2003, William Granara, Professor of Arabic at Harvard University, translated Granada into English and published it by Syracuse University Press in New York.
Main characters in the trilogy
Abu Jaafar
He is a calligrapher (i.e. a calligrapher) who owns a shop in the Al-Warraqin neighborhood and lives in the Al-Bayazin neighborhood in the Kingdom of Granada and owns another house in an area called Ain Al-Dama’. Al-Bayazin, and Umm Jaafar and Umm Hassan live with them, and Naeem and Saad work for him in the shop.
Jafar's mother
Abu Jaafar's wife, who is the grandmother of both Hassan and Salima.
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He works in Abu Jaafar's shop in the Al-Warraqin neighborhood, and a strong friendship developed between him and Saad because of their joint work in the shop and their overnight stay in the shop as well. After Abu Jaafar's death, he moved to work in a cobbler's shop (shoe maker).
Hasan's mom
The daughter-in-law, who is naturally the mother of the two children, Hassan and Saleema.
Saad
He used to work as a servant for one of the men before Abu Mansour, the owner of the bathroom, expelled this man from his bathroom and insulted him publicly in front of the people, and even tried to beat him, while Saad did not move a finger and did not even try to catch up with his master. He (Abu Jaafar) will provide him with a job and the bonds of friendship between him and Naim will be strengthened after his work in the shop. He will also marry Salima, the granddaughter of Abu Jaafar, and after the death of Abu Jaafar, he will move to work in the bathroom of Abu Mansour.
Hassan
The grandson of Abu Jaafar, who works as a calligrapher like his grandfather and married Maryama.
Mariam
Hassan's wife and daughter of a vocalist who used to sing biographies and tournaments.
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Granddaughter of Abu Jaafar and sister of Hassan. She married Saad.
Hisham
He is the son of Hassan and Maryam and married Aisha
ayishah
She is the daughter of Salima and Saad, and she married Hisham and gave birth to Ali
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One of the protagonists of the novel is the son of Aisha and Hisham and the grandson of Maryama and Hassan
They said about the trilogy
Makes the facts of history rise up before us hot flush. Follow Favorite
Language in Granada is memory. Hence this great celebration of the majesty of the language, its sobriety, rhythm and poeticity, and hence this wide dictionary, with multiple purposes in both narration and description. Follow Favorite
Granada is a novel of the oppressed where mere survival becomes heroism in an aggressive world that suppresses an entire history. Follow Favorite
By writing a woman, she enters the field of the historical novel, the Dafiya trilogy, after the Naguib Mahfouz trilogy has been a unique work in this field for many years. Follow Favorite
When one finishes reading Granada one must have a shudder in the soul. (unique discussion)
Granada
Granada is the first novel of the trilogy and was published in 1994. The novel won the best book award in the field of fiction for the year 1994 from the Cairo International Book Fair.
Mariam
Mariama is the second novel, and it was published in one edition along with the novel Departure in 1995. Together with Granada and Departure, she won the first prize for the first exhibition of the book of Arab women, Cairo, November 1995.
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The Departure is the third and final novel in the trilogy, and it was published in one edition along with Mariam's novel in 1995. Together with Granada and Mariam, she won the first prize at the first Arab Women's Book Exhibition, Cairo, November 1995.
Quotes from the novel
The human mind is a small wondrous box as long as it is carried in the head, and despite that it holds countless or counted things.
Granada of the Arabs has become like a prostitute, dancing and prostitution to please her masters because she is afraid.
They decide to leave. They pull the ground from under his feet. The land was not a rug that he bought from the market, settled on its price, then extended his hand into his pocket and paid what was required of it, and returned to carry it to his house, spread it and sat on it in glee. It was not a rug, but land, soil in which he planted his life and the veins of olives. What is left of life after uprooting? .. In the evening, the door of the house closes on him and on nostalgia.. Granada comes to him.. He says, O my stranger