Cervantes Street

A 'Latinidad List' Best Book of 2012" 'Cervantes Street' is exciting to read...Under Mr. Manrique's pen, the world of renaissance Spain and the Mediterranean is made vivid, its surface cracking with sudden violence and cruelty...This novel can be read as a generous salute across the centuries from one writer to another, as a sympathetic homage and recommendation... 'Cervantes Street' brings to life the real world behind the fantastic exploits of the knight of La Mancha. The comic mishaps are funnier for being based in fact. The romantic adventures are more affecting. 'Cervantes Street' has sent me back to 'Don Quixote'. - 'The Wall Street Journal' "Manrique adopts a florid, epic style for his tale of 16th-century Spain, one with the quality of a tale told by a troubadour rather than written on the page. He ably captures the human qualities of the legendary writer, as well as his swashbuckling." - 'Publishers Weekly' "Manrique has penned a well-written, well-researched, fast-paced narrative ... An entertaining book ... and a superb retlling of Cervantes's life." - 'Library Journal' " 'Cervantes Street' is historical fiction at its best. Compact and intense... The characters are wonderfully draw, the environments are detailed and colorful and the feeling is genuine... a gripping, adventuresome novel with profound insight into the ways in which we choose our destiny." - 'New York Journal of Books' "The novel is exciting, paced well, interesting and with a literary mystery to boo