The novel "Guardianes de la Alhambra," by Carolina Molina, has been internationally recognized and used to learn Spanish. It has also been the subject of a doctoral thesis and cited in television programs as an example of a novel focused on the city of Granada.
The American writer Washington Irving lived in a ruined Alhambra in the summer of 1829. There he wrote “Tales of the Alhambra,” a book that became famous and attracted a multitude of travelers, painters, and writers to Spain, such as Prosper Mérimée, Richard Ford, Théophile Gautier and Alexandre Dumas.
Carolina Molina published this novel in 2010 with great success and since then she has traveled with it outside of Spain, giving lectures and doing tours and reading clubs, promoting this little-known historical period of our past. The characters of “Guardianes de la Alhambra” became a family saga in her following novels: “Noches en Bib-Rambla,” “El último romántico,” and “Los ojos de Galdós.” In all of them we see a representation of the XIX Century Granada and Madrid, with its lights and shadows.
