Beautiful Maria of My Soul: Or the True Story of Maria Garcia Y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song - Hardcover

Hijuelos, Oscar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401323340 ISBN 13: 9781401323349

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2010

Synopsis

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.

She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, ''Beautiful Maria of My Soul.'' Now in her sixties and living in Miami with her pediatrician daughter, Teresa, Maria remains a beauty, still capable of turning heads. But she has never forgotten Nestor, and as she thinks back to her days--and nights--in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds.

About this title

About the Author:

Oscar Hijuelos, the son of Cuban immigrants, was in New York City in 1951. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His novels--Mambo Kings, Our House in the Last World, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Mr. Ives' Christmas, Empress of the Splendid Season, and A Simple Habana Melody--have been translated into twenty-five languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1401323340
• ISBN 13: 9781401323349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340