Books like Granada by Raḍwá ʻĀshūr

Edith Grossman's acclaimed English translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic "Don Quixote" brings the famed knight-errant and his loyal squire Sancho Panza to life in 16th‑century Spain.

La primera novela de Carmen Laforet, *Nada* pinta el estancamiento y la pobreza de la España de posguerra, centrándose en Andrea, una joven huérfana que llega a Barcelona para estudiar y se enfrenta a la cruda realidad de su familia.

A series of tales about the Alhambra in Granada, once the residence of the last Muslim rulers of Spain.

A historical adventure novel about a Chilean seamstress who flees to Peru and forms a passionate bond with a conquistador, leading to the creation of a new city and a clash between the Spanish and indigenous peoples of Chile.

A provocative portrait of modern Cairo, the Yacoubian Building illustrates the intertwined lives of its residents—politicians, clerics, artists and lovers—against a backdrop of corruption, social change, and religious tension.

A lyrical collection of vignettes that portrait the gentle world of a donkey named Platero and the childhood memories of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Two brothers from Andalusia face tyranny and danger in 16th century Spain, as they fight against Philip II's Catholic regime and protect the protestant women they love.

Mary Lavelle, a young Irish governess, travels to Spain on the eve of civil war, where her convent education clashes with a turbulent family's politics and a passionate, forbidden romance.

Francisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams - dreams in which the work of her father's silkworms is woven into robes for kings, cloaks for queens and carpets for their palaces. In far-off France, Marie Louise de Bourbon, niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of Spanish silk and imagines her own enchanted future. The lives of these two women - born on the same day, unfold in tandem, almost touching, as their destinies are spun out in seventeenth-century Spain. Francisca is consumed with passion for her lover, a Catholic priest; her obsession with him shapes her fate. Marie Louise, yoked by political expediency to the strange, impotent Carlos II of Spain, is blamed for the royal couple's childlessness, and forced to bear the consequences. In an atmosphere of superstition, the Inquisition conducts its reign of terror, ruthlessly destroying innocent lives. In countless tunnels beneath the city of Madrid, the Grand Inquisitor and his hooded torturers exact confessions from victims, even as two young women develop secret lives dedicated to resistance, transcendence and love.