Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos

Empress of the Splendid Season

Oscar Hijuelos

352 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 juxtapos...

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