Hocine Ben AmmouHistorical Fiction · Literary Fiction·b. 1948
باب الفلة
Synopsis
باب الفلة (Bab al-Falla) is Tunisian novelist Hasnine Ben Ammou's closing volume of a historical trilogy, following باب العلوج (Bab al-Alouj) and رحمانة (Rahmana). Set in Tunis in the final quarter of the sixteenth century—opening on a rainy January night in 1568 near the dyers' market—it follows the collapse of Hafsid rule and the Spanish occupation, in the years just before the Ottomans arrived to expel the Spanish from Tunis.
The novel won Tunisia's Comar d'Or literary prize in 2006.