Cervantes Street

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Cervantes Street is a masterpiece of historical fiction that recreates the epic life of Miguel de Cervantes. During his youth, the impoverished poet was forced into exile after nearly killing a man in a duel; later he was wounded in battle and sold into slavery when his ship was captured by pirates. Yet somehow Cervantes escaped and settled in Spain, where he wrote Don Quixote. Having taken the bare bones from Cervantes's background, Jaime Manrique breathes vivid life into Cervantes in this dramatic and suspenseful interpretation of one of modern literature's most brilliant writers.

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Cervantes like we've never known him: the rogue, the lover, the soldier, the slave, and above all, the poet. In this novel, Jaime Manrique reminds us that the great writer was a man of flesh and blood whose eventful life seemed destined for great literature.
--Esmeralda Santiago

Jaime Manrique has written an exceptional historical novel, recreating with imagination and detailed accuracy the world of Late Renaissance in Spain. Manrique's rendering of the life of Cervantes is brilliant, and his solution to the mystery of who wrote the false Quixote is fascinating, and very persuasive.
--Edith Grossman

Author Bio

Jaime Manrique: Jaime Manrique is a novelist, essayist, and poet who lives in New York. His critically acclaimed novels include Colombian Gold, Latin Moon in Manhattan, and Our Lives are the Rivers.