Oscar Hijuelos

Related Books

1 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Sep-1989)
2 - Beautiful Maria of My Soul (Jun-2010)

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  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  

  • Sep-1989
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  The Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50's New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos.  It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand ...

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  Our House in the Last World
  

  • Jun-1992
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  A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut�"�"and most autobiographical�"�"novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize Hector Santi...

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  The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
  

  • Feb-1993
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  With “soaring, matchless prose,” a Pulitzer Prize winner pens a New York Times bestselling saga of the Montez O’Briens, a rambunctious family of Irish Cuban immigrants comprised of fourteen daughters -- and one doggedly masculine son (Publisher...

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  Mr. Ives' Christmas
  

  • Nov-1995
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  Mr. Ives has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he has achieved the typical American dream. But that is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed at Christmas. Overwhelmed by g...

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  The Empress of the Splendid Season
  

  • Aug-1999
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  Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban migr named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes L...

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  A Simple Habana Melody
  

  • Jun-2002
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  From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a “masterpiece” about a composer returning to his beloved homeland after WWII (Kirkus, starred review). The year is 1947. Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life once revolved around music and lov...

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  Dark Dude
  

  • Sep-2008
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  He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever. In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the "dark dude" or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood....

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  Beautiful Maria of My Soul
  

  • Jun-2010
  • / Literary
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  In Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to the passionate tale he began twenty years ago in The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Maria is the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo’s heart and broke it, inspiring him...

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  Another Spaniard in the Works
  

  • Nov-2015
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  After buying a used copy of A Spaniard in the Works on an October evening in 1980, Victor Mercado, a twenty-seven-year old clerk, had a chance encounter that would change his outlook forever: he met the book's author, John Lennon. It happened so quic...

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  Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Historical
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  TWAIN & STANLEY ENTER PARADISE, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the long friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legen...

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  Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  A legendary Cuban-American storyteller enters the Library of America series with a volume gathering three seductive and profound novels about family, desire, music, and lossOscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) is one of the most acclaimed Latino writers ...

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Award-Winning Books by Oscar Hijuelos

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1989 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
1990 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction