A Simple Habana Melody

A Simple Habana Melody - Paperback

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A Simple Habana Melody - Paperback

A Simple Habana Melody - Paperback

by Oscar Hijuelos
$18.99
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Book Overview

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a "masterpiece" 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 music and love, is finally returning home. En route to Habana, Cuba from Spain, he is a shadow of his former self, disillusioned after he was mistakenly sent to a camp during the Nazi occupation of France. In Habana, he escapes his anguish by reminiscing about his happiest moments before the war, when he lived a life of pleasure and excitement--and had a loving, if unrequited romance with Rita Valladares, the alluring singer who inspired Levis's most famous composition, "Rosas Puras."

A tender homage to music, art, and a vibrant country at the edge of modernity, A Simple Habana Melody is a virtuoso performance from one of America's most talented writers.

Includes a reading group guide.
ISBN9781538722190
Author Oscar Hijuelos
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been translated into more than 40 languages.

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