Empress of the Splendid Season
by Oscar Hijuelos
2020-04-21 04:47:10
Empress of the Splendid Season
by Oscar Hijuelos
2020-04-21 04:47:10
Here is the story of Lydia Espana, an emigre from Cuba who works on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as a cleaning woman to help support her husband Raul and two children. Writing with spell-binding passion, Hijuelos simultaneously tells Lydia's tale...
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Here is the story of Lydia Espana, an emigre from Cuba who works on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as a cleaning woman to help support her husband Raul and two children. Writing with spell-binding passion, Hijuelos simultaneously tells Lydia's tale -- her loves, her marriage, her Havana past, her frustrations with her life in New York, her children -- as well as stories of the secret lives she uncovers in her clients' apartments. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city than Hijuelos, and no one before has better captured the complexity of what happens to generations of people who come to America: how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams and yet sometimes a loss of what has rooted us to the past. Lydia Espana is one of Hijuelos's most magnificent creations and Empress of the Splendid Season is truly a tour de force by a master storyteller at the peak of his creative powers.
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