OSCAR HIJUELOS - With BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL

06/24/2010 7:30 pm

Oscar Hijuelos - at Quail Ridge BooksOscar Hijuelos visits with his new BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL.  Returning to the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE,  the story is told from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.  NCSU Friends Of The Library is co-sponsor for this event.

Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Beautiful Maria of My Soul: Or the True Story of Maria Garcia y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song (Hardcover)

By Oscar Hijuelos
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9781401323349
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Published: Hyperion, 6/2010
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A new twist on the Pulitzer Prize winner, THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. 

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Paperback)

By Oscar Hijuelos
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9781401310028
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Published: Hyperion, 5/2010
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It's 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth--a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep afection. In "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, "Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.

A Simple Habana Melody (Paperback)

By Oscar Hijuelos
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780060928698
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Published: Harper Perennial, 6/2003
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It is 1947, and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love, and sadness, returns to Cuba after being mistakenly imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of France.

When Levis arrives back in Habana, his mind returns to an unrequited romance with the alluring Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras." This 1928 composition became the most famous rumba in the world and changed American and European tastes in music and dance forever.

Empress of the Splendid Season (Paperback)

By Oscar Hijuelos
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060928704
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Published: Harper Perennial, 1/2004
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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 émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past.  EMPRESS OF THE SPLENDID SEASON is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.
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