EL SEÑOR DEL VIENTO

Gálib Ibn Abd al-Rahman, The Most Powerful General of al-Andalus. This fast-paced historical novel rescues from the shadows of history the compelling figure of one of the most important figures of 10th-century al-Andalus: the Slavic slave Gálib, who would be freed by ‘Abd al-Rahman III, and whose loyalty and faithful service to the Umayyad caliphs of Córdoba would lead him to become the general of all their armies. In an al-Andalus at the zenith of its military supremacy on the Peninsula, Gálib would be able to lead the war for control of the Maghreb and simultaneously defend the border with the Christian kingdoms with unwavering resolve, for which he would be recognized with the honorary title of “the bearer of the two swords.” Only one man might perhaps challenge his power: the ambitious al-Mansur, who was destined, though he did not yet know it, to change the history of the West. The Lord of the Wind transports us to Caliphate Al-Andalus, amid feats of valor and intrigue, and allows us to rub shoulders with the viziers and nobles of the Cordoban court, but it also delves into the female sphere — silenced by chroniclers — from which wives, concubines, and mothers of heirs played an active role in the history of Al-Andalus. The author of the bestseller *The Solitudes of the Inca* immerses us in one of the most exciting and brilliant periods of our history in a novel that is destined to become a landmark in its genre.