Main characters
Source: Abu Jaafar He is a calligrapher who owns a shop in Al-Warraqin Neighbourhood and lives in Al-Bayazzin Neighbourhood in Granada. He also owns a house in a place known as “Aynul Dam’i” or “Tear’s Eye.” He is a father to one child, and a grandfather to two, Hassan and Salima, whom he takes care of in his house in Al-Bayazzin Neighbourhood – after the death of their father. Umm Jaafar and Umm Hassan live with them, and Nai’m and Saad work with him in his shop. Umm Jaafar Abu Jaafar's wife, and Hassan and Salima's grandmother. Na’im Works in Abu Jaafar's shop in Al-Warraqin Neighbourhood. A strong friendship forms between him and Saad due to working and living together at the shop. After Abu Jaafar's death, he moves to work at Eskafi's shop, who is a shoemaker. Umm Hassan Abu Jaafar's son's wife, and Hassan and Salima's mother. Saad He used to be a servant for one of the men before he this man gets kicked out by Abu Mansur and humiliates him publicly, in addition to trying to hit him. All of this does not affect Saad; he does not even try and follow this man – his master. After several days, he goes to Abu Mansur who refers him Al-Warraqin Neighbourhood where his friend – Abu Jaafar – will find a job for Saad. After working at Abu Jaafar's shop, a friendship between him and Na’im blossoms. He also married Salima, Abu Jaafar's granddaughter, and after Abu Jaafar's death, goes to work at Abu Mansur's bath. Hassan Abu Jaafar's grandson. He works as a calligrapher like his grandfather, and he marries Maryama. Salima Abu Jaafar's granddaughter and Hassan's sister. She marries Saad. Hisham Hassan and Maryama's son, and he married Aisha. Aisha Salima and Saad's daughter, and she marries Hisham and has Ali. Ali One of the heroes in the novel, and he is Aisha and Hisham's son, and Maryama and Hassan's grandson. == About The Trilogy ==
About The Trilogy
Source: Ali Al-Ra'I said that the trilogy allows intense historical events to explode right before the reader's eyes. Latina Az-Zayat said that the language used in ‘Granada’ is one of memory. This nostalgia is what results in the richness, rhythm, and poetic-ness of the language. This language leads to diversity in both, narration and description. Jaber Asfour said that ‘Granada’ gives voice to the oppressed where staying alive is heroic in a hostile world which oppresses an entire history. Sabri Hafiz said that Ashour's trilogy is the first astounding trilogy written by a woman in Arabic fiction, standing alongside Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy. Farida An-Naqash said that the novel makes the soul shudder. == Granada ==
Maryama
Maryama is the second novel in the trilogy, and it was published in the same edition as ‘Departure’ in 1995. Both ‘Granada’ and ‘Departure’ received the first prize of the first Arab Woman Book Expo in Cairo 1995. == Departure ==