Our House In the Last World

Literature & Fiction

Oscar Hijuelos

Contemporary

Penguin Putnam~trade

Born of Cuban/Irish parents, Emilio Montez O'Brien grows up surrounded by women, the youngest child of a family of fourteen sisters. His awareness of female charms blossoms at a very early age. As an adult he becomes a famous movie star. By the author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love".

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien: A Novel

Penguin??Books

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

<p>The Santini family immigrates to New York City from Cuba and struggles to adjust to a new way of life</p>

Our House in the Last World

Washington Square Press

<p>Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story—of a man for his wife, for his children, for God—and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us.</p>

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria. She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, ''Beautiful Maria of My Soul.'' Now in her sixties and living in Miami with her pediatrician daughter, Teresa, Maria remains a beauty, still capable of turning heads. But she has never forgotten Nestor, and as she thinks back to her days--and nights--in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds.

Beautiful Maria of My Soul

United States

Blackstone Audiobooks

Beautiful Maria of My Soul: A Novel

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Tells the story of a Cuban family exiled in New York. For Alejo, the father, it means escape from the dreary town of San Pedro, for Mercedes, his wife, America is a material paradise. But for their sons Horacio and Hextor, it is Cuba that matters. By the author of "Mambo Kings".

Serpents Tail/consortium

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