El señor del viento

Ghalib ibn Abd al-Rahman, the most powerful general of al-Andalus. This gripping historical novel rescues from the shadows of history the compelling figure of one of the most important figures of 10th-century Andalusia: the Slavic slave Ghalib, who was freed by Abd al-Rahman III, and whose loyalty and faithful service to the Umayyad caliphs of Córdoba led him to become the general of all their armies. In an al-Andalus at the zenith of its military supremacy on the Iberian Peninsula, Ghalib was able to lead the war for control of the Maghreb and simultaneously defend the border with the Christian kingdoms, earning him the honorary title of "the bearer of the two swords." Only one man could perhaps challenge his power: the ambitious al-Mansur, who was destined, though unknowingly, to change the course of Western history. The Lord of the Wind transports us to Caliphate-era Al-Andalus, amidst feats and intrigues, and allows us to rub shoulders with the viziers and nobles of the Cordoban court, but it also delves into the feminine space, silenced by the chroniclers, from which wives, concubines and mothers of the heirs, were an active part of the history of al-Andalus.