Results for "Hijuelos, Oscar"

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 stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, an... Read More about Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel

In this mesmerizing sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, the "heart-stealing heroine" (Amy Tan) and muse of Cuban musician Nestor Castillo takes readers on the journey of a lifetime with this story of reinvention, romance, and revolution.    In&nbsp... Read More about Beautiful Maria of My Soul

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 Santinio is the younger son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to... Read More about Our House in the Last World: A Novel

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 (Publishers Weekly).  Irish American Nelson O’Brien fell passion... Read More about The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien: A Novel

Hailed “the deepest and the best” of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Oscar Hijuelos’s novels, this acclaimed national bestseller examines faith lost and regained after a businessman’s son violently dies at Christmas (New York TimesBook Review). In 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the A... Read More about Mr. Ives' Christmas: A Novel

From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo ... Read More about The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel (FSG Classics)