Aulia. Murgia V.

In the distant Middle Ages, during the Caliphate, in the Sahara, a lame girl lived in the sands of the Sahara. And she had a gift - to predict the rain. The locals were afraid of Aulia, she was not destined to marry. So she would have spent all her life, talking with goats and scorpions, if one day a horseman had not jumped into the village in a charred burnus. He was from another world where women cover their face, and palaces reach the sky. Love settled in the heart of Aulia gave her a dream. In search of her, Aulia goes into a journey, where she is threatened with predators, captivity and death. Tales of thousands and one night become fatal reality, and can be overcome alone with the loss of life... or a loss of herself.

Veronika Murgy - a Mexican writer, by education, a historian and artist, created a gallery of strong and unusual female characters. In Aulia, motives from oriental fairy tales are intertwined into the novel and gain direct psychological meaning. In 2022, Murgy was nominated for the International Literary Prize of memory Astrid Lindgren