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19 produkter
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Häftad, 2009
179 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION In 1949 two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out clubs, dance halls and theatres with their sensuous, pulsing Latin music. This is the captivating …
Burnt Sugar
Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
Av Lori Marie Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos
Häftad, 2006
261 kr
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Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate …
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
Av Oscar Hijuelos, Lori Marie Carlson
E-bok, 2006
146 kr
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Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate …
Mr. Ives' Christmas
Häftad, 1996
207 kr
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This title tells the story of Mr Ives, who was adopted from a foundling home as a child. He is first seen in his 50s, very much a product of his times. He has a successful career, a wife and two children. But his dreams are shattered after his son is killed violently over Christmas.
Empress of the Splendid Season
Häftad, 1999
100 kr
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When Raul Espana falls ill, his wife Lydia, who had enjoyed a life of luxury as the mayor's daughter in Cuba, finds herself cleaning the apartments of rich New Yorkers. Among her employers is Mr Osprey, a paragon of glamour and money who becomes involved in the lives of Lydia and her children.
Dark Dude
E-bok, 2009
146 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Oscar Hijuelos comes a riveting young adult novel set in the late 1960s about a haunting choice and an unforgettable journey of identity, misidentity, and all that we take with us when we run away. He didn’t say good-bye. He didn’t leave a phone number. And he …
Twain And Stanley Enter Paradise
Häftad, 2016
247 kr
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Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, the impeccably researched final novel from the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, follows famed 19th century journalist-explorer Henry Stanley, his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant, and Stanley's long friendship with Mark Twain, as they venture to Cuba …
Simple Habana Melody
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
204 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos comes a "massively engaging...masterpiece of history, music, wonder, and sorrow" 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 …
Empress of the Splendid Season
A Novel
Av Elizabeth Strout, Oscar Hijuelos
Häftad, 2025
204 kr
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In Empress of the Splendid Season, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos brings the joys and heartbreaks of twentieth-century America vividly to life: "resounds with sights, tastes, textures and even the humming ambience of deep, well-appointed brownstone apartments" (Los Angeles …
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
218 kr
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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 (Publishers Weekly). Irish American Nelson O'Brien fell passionately …
Our House in the Last World
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in 1940s New York in the debut--and most autobiographical--novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.New York City, 1944. Hector Santinio is the younger son of Cuban immigrants Alejo and Mercedes. The fraught family of …
Mr. Ives' Christmas
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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In 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the American dream. Adopted as a child by a widowed print shop manager, who helped him cultivate a love of drawing, he now has a successful career as an illustrator in advertising, a beautiful home with his wife and muse, Annie, and two loving …
