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The Cordoba Library
January 24, 20257:00 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
On Friday, January 24, Casa Árabe, the Municipal Network of Libraries of Cordoba and the publishing house Penguin Libros will be presenting this book by Andrea D. Morales, at an event which will also feature a presentation by writer and journalist Matilde Cabello. Come join us!
In the year of 973 A.D., it was a time when only books could guard wisdom, and for this reason they became treasures. To protect them, the greatest library in the history of the West came to life in Cordoba. It is there that Nasir, a young doctor from Baghdad, arrived with the mission of finding a valuable manuscript. There he will meet Lubna, one of the most audacious slaves close to the caliph, a safekeeper of wisdom and books.
La biblioteca de Córdoba (The Cordoba Library) takes us back to the splendor of the Caliphate, where women poets, mathematicians, curators and catalogers were in charge of safeguarding knowledge. This extraordinary story, full of palace intrigue, mysteries and passion, will forever mark the destiny of Nasir and Lubna. With a narrative pace and excellent historical accuracy, Andrea D. Morales, author of La última sultana and La dama de la judería, recovers the unknown figure of Lubna of Cordoba and the forgotten immensity of her library. By bringing them to life in this novel, she shows us that books have always had and will always have the greatest of powers: saving us from oblivion and making us eternal.
Andrea D. Morales
Born in Seville in the year 1995, she studied History at the University of Seville, where she specialized in the Middle Ages and, specifically, in the Gender History of Al-Andalus. She currently teaches historical documentation at the Academy of Youth Literature for Writers.
Her published works include the two-part series Crónicas del Mar (Chronicles of the Sea), made up of Venganza y Legado (Vengeance and Legacy), Las brujas de Tintagel (The Witches of Tintagel) and Bajo la luz del faro. La última sultana (The Last Woman Sultan) was her first historical novel and with it she established herself as one of the most promising voices of the genre in Spain. This was followed by La dama de la judería (The Lady from the Jewish Quarter), and she is now returning to bookstores with La biblioteca de Córdoba (The Cordoba Library).
Matilde Cabello
A poet, novelist, journalist, reporter, scriptwriter and lecturer, her experience includes nearly two hundred publications including novels, poetry books, tourist guides, documentaries and biographies. Her works have been acknowledged by the public and critics, as well as being backed by the domestic and foreign awards she has won. Wallada, la última luna (Wallada, the Last Moon, Ahora 2001; Almuzara 2005; Castelvecchi, Rome, 2012), El Libro de las Parturientas (“The Midwives’ Book,” El Páramo 2008; second edition, 2011), El pozo del manzano (The Apple Tree Well, Buendía, 2014) and Gentes de Luz (People of Light, Utopía, 2016) are a few of the works in which her commitment to historical remembrance and the defense of women’s rights are made evident. She is the coordinator of the Casa Árabe Reading Club in Cordoba.
La biblioteca de Córdoba (The Cordoba Library) takes us back to the splendor of the Caliphate, where women poets, mathematicians, curators and catalogers were in charge of safeguarding knowledge. This extraordinary story, full of palace intrigue, mysteries and passion, will forever mark the destiny of Nasir and Lubna. With a narrative pace and excellent historical accuracy, Andrea D. Morales, author of La última sultana and La dama de la judería, recovers the unknown figure of Lubna of Cordoba and the forgotten immensity of her library. By bringing them to life in this novel, she shows us that books have always had and will always have the greatest of powers: saving us from oblivion and making us eternal.
Andrea D. Morales
Born in Seville in the year 1995, she studied History at the University of Seville, where she specialized in the Middle Ages and, specifically, in the Gender History of Al-Andalus. She currently teaches historical documentation at the Academy of Youth Literature for Writers.
Her published works include the two-part series Crónicas del Mar (Chronicles of the Sea), made up of Venganza y Legado (Vengeance and Legacy), Las brujas de Tintagel (The Witches of Tintagel) and Bajo la luz del faro. La última sultana (The Last Woman Sultan) was her first historical novel and with it she established herself as one of the most promising voices of the genre in Spain. This was followed by La dama de la judería (The Lady from the Jewish Quarter), and she is now returning to bookstores with La biblioteca de Córdoba (The Cordoba Library).
Matilde Cabello
A poet, novelist, journalist, reporter, scriptwriter and lecturer, her experience includes nearly two hundred publications including novels, poetry books, tourist guides, documentaries and biographies. Her works have been acknowledged by the public and critics, as well as being backed by the domestic and foreign awards she has won. Wallada, la última luna (Wallada, the Last Moon, Ahora 2001; Almuzara 2005; Castelvecchi, Rome, 2012), El Libro de las Parturientas (“The Midwives’ Book,” El Páramo 2008; second edition, 2011), El pozo del manzano (The Apple Tree Well, Buendía, 2014) and Gentes de Luz (People of Light, Utopía, 2016) are a few of the works in which her commitment to historical remembrance and the defense of women’s rights are made evident. She is the coordinator of the Casa Árabe Reading Club in Cordoba.
Book cover.