Anyway, above is a mano de Fatima in it's original Moorish incarnation, as a good luck talisman to ward off the evil eye. And below is another, in the more prosaic form of a door knocker - these you see all over Andalucia.
Recognition for Juviles' pivotal role in literature, at last.
The new street that's just been built in Juviles - below the mirador and the ham factory - has been named after author Ildefonso Falcones in gratitude for his referencing the village in his historical novel La Mano de Fatima. I'm not sure how much of the book is set in Juviles - I'll find out when Amazon delivers my copy - but I suspect it's just a passing reference. My list of literary connections for the Alpujarra gets longer every day; to Chris Stewart and Gerald Brenann we can now add Tariq Ali, Falcones, Lorca, Alarcon, Joan Lingard and, at a push, Alexei Sayle.
Anyway, above is a mano de Fatima in it's original Moorish incarnation, as a good luck talisman to ward off the evil eye. And below is another, in the more prosaic form of a door knocker - these you see all over Andalucia.
Anyway, above is a mano de Fatima in it's original Moorish incarnation, as a good luck talisman to ward off the evil eye. And below is another, in the more prosaic form of a door knocker - these you see all over Andalucia.
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