صخرهٔ تانیوس (نسخهٔ اسپانیایی)

Ambientada en el siglo XIX, en un Líbano dividido por el enfrentamiento entre Egipto y el Imperio Otomano, La roca de Tanios -novela inspirada en un hecho real- gira en torno a la muerte violenta de un patriarca, cuyo asesino, refugiado en Chipre, es devuelto con engaños a su tierra para ser castigado. La reconstrucción de la historia va dibujando la figura de Tanios, convertido por obra del destino en héroe legendario y liberador de su pueblo. El amor, la venganza y la muerte sirven a Amin Maalouf para tejer la trama de este relato lleno de peripecias que es, a la vez, una deliciosa crónica de la vida cotidiana en un pueblo en el cual la tolerancia se ve amenazada por unos acontecimientos que presagian un futuro de violento antagonismo. Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf's new novel, The Rock of Tanios, begins with a recollection of the rock on which Tanios was last seen sitting and weaves together the strands of the fascinating legend of his disappearance. Tanios was the illegitimate son of a powerful Sheik whose every action brought chaos into his village. When Tanios's adopted father caused the death of a powerful political rival, he and his son together fled their homeland. In hiding, they became entangled with international spies and politicians; Tanios soon took on the roll of intermediary between dueling European and Middle Eastern powers.