ISBN-13: 9780393028126 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 352 str.
A study of the life of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. It traces his life as a soldier, as a tax collector, his time as a prisoner of war of the Turks, and finally the publication of Don Quixote in 1605. This book won the Prix Goncourt for biography in 1987.