Literary fame again

Juviles' starring role in La Mano de Fatima, the hugely successful historical novel by Ildefonso Falcones, continues to raise our village's literary profile. What with novel-clutching tourists on coach tours poking around the streets to see where all the moorish women were murdered, it's getting like Bronte Country, only with more ham. An English translation is promised for next year, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone is optioning movie rights. I've only managed the first dozen chapters (at 1,000 pages of dense Spanish it's a fairly daunting tome) and it strikes me as being somewhat overwritten, but the story of sectarian slaughter during the muslim rebellion of 1568 is fascinating. Falcones visited the village earlier this year (they named a street after him) and there are photos and a fairly amusing video on the ayuntamiento website. Here's the man himself signing copies of the novel for the eager bookworms of the high Alpujarra. This was probably before the obligatory tour of the ham factory.