From the internationally bestselling author of THE CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA. 1564, Granada. The Moors have unsuccessfully tried to rise up against their oppressors. One man, half-Muslim, half-Christian, hatches a grand plan to reconcile two warring faiths - and the two halves of his identity.

Ildefonso Falcones' first novel, Cathedral of the Sea became a publishing legend with over a million copies sold in Spain alone. It has since been published in over forty countries, becoming a European bestseller. In his latest blockbuster, The Hand of Fatima, Falcones is marking the four hundredth anniversary of the expulsion of the Moors from 17th Century Spain. Falcones is a practising lawyer in Barcelona where he lives with his wife and four sons