 The novel received The International Latino Book Award (Best historical novel 2007).In 2012 Manrique published "Cervantes Street" (Akashic Books, 2012).About the novel The Wall Street Journal said ""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.