Libro: The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Cambridge. October 1970. Brian Manrique, a young Gibraltarian student of Modern Languages, is feeling homesick and depressed. One day he glimpses what looks like a familiar face in the square outside the library. Convinced that he has seen a fellow Gibraltarian, Manrique leaves the library and hurries towards an encounter that will mark his life for years to come….

Published to coincide with the Gibraltar Literature Symposium held at the University of Cambridge in September 2023, this new and revised edition of The Escape Artist contains many of the themes and concerns associated with M. G. Sanchez’s later fictional writing, as well as being a subtle exploration of modern Gibraltarian identity.

‘Well worth reading, because no-one else is writing like this about modern Gibraltar. M. G. Sanchez is the real McCoy.’
Nicholas Rankin, British Historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Cover design by James Mir. Foreword by Giordano Durante. Prefatory verses by Gabriel Moreno.