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Empress of the Splendid Season
- A Novel
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781538722213
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1538722216
Udg. Dato:
6 nov 2025
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
133mm
Højde:
203mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown & Company
Oplagsdato:
6 nov 2025

Empress of the Splendid Season

- A Novel
Engelsk
Paperback
Format:

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos brings the joys and heartbreaks of twentieth-century America vividly to life in this "tender" novel (New York Times Book Review). Lydia España—once a wealthy, spoiled daughter of Cuba—works at a sewing factory in New York. Adjusting to her sharp change of circumstances, missing the days when her prosperous father provided her with every luxury, she ruminates on the incident that drove her away from her homeland in the late 1940s—until she falls in love with Raul, a kindhearted, working-class waiter who sees Lydia as the “Queen of the Congo Line” she used to be: the empress of "the most beautiful and splendid season, which is love.” Despite their age difference, a loving marriage follows, as well as two children. Lydia revels in her newfound happiness, but when Raul’s health declines, she finds her fortunes reversed yet again. Now working as a cleaning lady, Lydia can’t help but contrast her experiences with those of her clients, whose secret lives and day-to-day realities are so starkly different from her own—but over time, the role may prove to be just what she needs to secure a better life for her children. Written with absorbing, magnetic prose, this tenderly rendered novel follows a proud, hardworking woman through the ups and downs of her life. It is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a lasting and expert portrayal of the highs and lows of chasing—and living—the “American Dream.” Includes a Reading Group Guide.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781538722213
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1538722216
Udg. Dato:
6 nov 2025
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
133mm
Højde:
203mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown & Company
Oplagsdato:
6 nov 2025
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