Tariq Ali, who wrote the introduction, is a writer and filmmaker and the author of four novels and more than a dozen books on world history and politics. He is also an editor of New Left Review.
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants...