POSTPONED: Book Presentation: Jaime Manrique’s Cervantes Street

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Manrique, an acclaimed Colombian-American novelist, will be interviewed by author Rivka Galchen on the occasion of his latest novel (Akashic Books, 2012). Cervantes Street is a fictional biography of Miguel de Cervantes as well as a resplendent tapestry of Golden Age Spain, replete with pirates, prostitutes, members of the Court, even the wonderful Sancho Panza from the master’s Don Quixote, all of whom are summoned up in these pages. Cervantes Street has been praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz as “vivacious” and “big-hearted” and by Colombian writer Laura Restrepo as “[a] delicious novel.”

Co-presented by the Americas Society and Akashic Books. In English.

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Jaime Manrique, born in 1949 in Barranquilla, Colombia, is a novelist, essayist and poet. His critically acclaimed novels include Latin Moon in Manhattan (1992) and Our Lives are the Rivers (2006); the protagonist of the latter was inspired by Manuela Sáenz, the lover of South American liberator Simón Bolívar. Manrique is a distinguished lecturer in the department of foreign languages and literatures at the City College of New York.

Rivka Galchen, who was born in Canada and lives in New York, is one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction writers. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances (2008), was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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