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- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1538740206
- ISBN-13: 9781538740200
- Format: 13.2 x 20.1 x 2.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In Beautiful MarÃÂa of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to the passionate tale he began twenty years ago in The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, MarÃÂa is the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, "Beautiful MarÃÂa of My Soul.'" Now in her sixties, MarÃÂa GarcÃÂa y Cifuentes is the lady behind the song, living as an exile in Miami. But while she left Cuba decades ago, she has never forgotten Nestor.We now see the Mambo Kings story through Maria's eyes. And, as she thinks back to her days and nights in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds. We meet her as the illiterate peasant girl with unspeakable, head-turning beauty, who then meets Nestor in Havana, and ultimately stays with her moneyed lover instead of him. But when the Cuban revolution intervenes, Maria and her daughter find themselves in Miami and in community with other Cuban woman. And as she begins to take lessons at the community college, Maria goes from muse to the writer of her own story.
Beautiful MarÃÂa of My Soul is a stunning act of reinvention, and another contemporary classic from an extraordinarily talented writer.
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- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1538740206
- ISBN-13: 9781538740200
- Format: 13.2 x 20.1 x 2.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
We now see the Mambo Kings story through Maria's eyes. And, as she thinks back to her days and nights in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds. We meet her as the illiterate peasant girl with unspeakable, head-turning beauty, who then meets Nestor in Havana, and ultimately stays with her moneyed lover instead of him. But when the Cuban revolution intervenes, Maria and her daughter find themselves in Miami and in community with other Cuban woman. And as she begins to take lessons at the community college, Maria goes from muse to the writer of her own story.
Beautiful MarÃÂa of My Soul is a stunning act of reinvention, and another contemporary classic from an extraordinarily talented writer.
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