An aging Cuban-American musician living in a flop house in East Harlem in the early 1980s recalls his youthful success: in 1949, as he and his brother played the dance halls of New York, they became known as the Mambo Kings. Postwar New York was an exciting place for Cesar and Nestor Castillo, and the lush, sensuous music they played, and the many ...
Israel Levis, born in Habana, is musically gifted both as a composer and performer. When he writes a hit for the singer Rita Valledares--the love of his life--he is internationally acclaimed but still unable to express his love for the beautiful Rita. Set in Habana and Paris, the action moves between Israel's birth in 1890 to his heartbroken ...
"i think in spanish" "i write in english" "i want to go back to puerto rico, " "but i wonder if my kink could live" "in ponce, mayaguez and carolina" "tengo las venas aculturadas" "escribo en spanglish" "abraham in espanol" "--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato Laviera" A new collection of bilingual poems from the bestselling editor of "Cool ...
Mr. Ives grew up an orphan, so he doesn't know his background. Suspecting that he may be Hispanic, he identifies with other Hispanics. However, he marries an Anglo woman. The novel describes his crisis of faith when his son is senselessly murdered.
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.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes his teen fiction debut with a gritty coming-of-age novel that is full of details and icons of teenage life in the 1960s: the lure of the hippie culture, the fight to fit in, and the desperate need to break away.
Israel Levis, born in Habana, is musically gifted both as a composer and performer. When he writes a hit for the singer Rita Valledares--the love of his life--he is internationally acclaimed but still unable to express his love for the beautiful Rita. Set in Habana and Paris, the action moves between Israel's birth in 1890 to his heartbroken ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling sensation, Hijuelos captures in vivid and elegant prose the passion and poignancy of a world where the pulsing and rhythmic beat of the mambo imbues and fulfills dreams.
The saga of the Montez O'Brien family, the children of an enterprising Irish-American named Nelson O'Brien, and his beautiful, aristocratic Cuban-American wife, Mariela Montez. The lives of their extraordinary children span the 20th century and the globe.
This bilingual showcase of luminous 20th-century and contemporary Cuban poetry is edited by bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos. Rather than an exhaustive survey, "Burnt Sugar" is filled with the editors' favorite works that most colorfully illustrate "Cuban'a"--the very essence of what it ...
Corre el ano 1947, e Israel Levis -- un compositor cubano cuya vida habia sido un ensueno de musica, amor y tristeza -- regresa a Cuba despues de haber sido equivocadamente encarcelado durante la ocupacion nazista de Francia. Cuando Levis regresa a La Habana, su mente vuelve al pasado al recordar su amor no correspondido por la hechizante Rita ...
The saga of the Montez O'Brien family, the children of an enterprising Irish-American named Nelson O'Brien, and his beautiful, aristocratic Cuban-American wife, Mariela Montez. The lives of their extraordinary children span the 20th century and the globe.
The American Family Album series tells the often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. Like any family album, the pages contain period photographs, memorabilia, selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspapers. Each book is a pictorial and written record of the country left behind, the ...
Born of Cuban/Irish parents, Emilio Montez O'Brien grows up surrounded by women, the youngest child of a family of fourteen sisters. His awareness of female charms blossoms at a very early age. As an adult he becomes a famous movie star. By the author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love".
A bilingual collection of poems celebrating all the themes and moods of teenage life, and all the mixed traditions, that come with growing up Hispanic in America. With contributing poets such as Oscar Hijuelos, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, and Ed Vega, the collection includes many of the Hispanic communities in the U.S.
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