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Oscar Hijuelos
OSCAR HIJUELOS, the son of Cuban immigrants, is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His seven novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in New York City and spends part of the... show more



OSCAR HIJUELOS, the son of Cuban immigrants, is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His seven novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in New York City and spends part of the year in Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches at Duke University.

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Birth date: August 24, 1951
Died: October 12, 2013
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Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 10 years ago
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/08/beautiful-maria-of-my-soul-by-oscar.html
helenliz
helenliz rated it 12 years ago
I loved this book. A huge and sweeping in scope, taking in life, death, love and loss, spiritual ecstacy and loss of faith - in fact everything - and all done in the most understated way. There isn't a spare word in it, but it isn't in the least bit sparse. Ending is both incredibly sad, but magnifi...
Jessica (HDB)
Jessica (HDB) rated it 12 years ago
What Thoughts Without Cigarettes genuinely reminded me of was my childhood. Oscar Hijuelos has a very easy writing style that borders on conversation. I was taken back to the days where my grandfather used to sit around and tell stories about when he was young. Always interesting, sometimes a bit co...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Another give-away not available to Europeans! I would be so happy to read an ebook of this on my Kindle. I loved the sample.
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 13 years ago
I read Oscar Hijuelos'’ award-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love nearly 20 years ago, when it was first published, and never gave much thought to its having a sequel. But when I learned that it had one - told from the perspective of the woman who inspired the fictional Castillo brother...
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