{"product_id":"empress-of-the-splendid-season-9780060928704","title":"Empress of the Splendid Season","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past. \u003cem\u003eEmpress of the Splendid Season\u003c\/em\u003e is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHijuelos, Oscar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Oscar Hijuelos was born of Cuban parentage 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, among others. His five previous novels have been translated into twenty-five languages.\u003cp\u003eOscar Hijuelos nació de padres cubanos en Nueva York en 1951. Sus otras novelas incluyen \u003cstrong\u003eMr. Ives' Christmas\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOur House in the Last World\u003c\/strong\u003e y \u003cstrong\u003eA Simple Havana Melody\u003c\/strong\u003e (Una Sencilla Melodía Habanera). Vive en Nueva York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409427239186,"sku":"9780060928704","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b315d288-cbf1-4c7f-bcc4-33c01f268843.jpg?v=1759830803","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/empress-of-the-splendid-season-9780060928704","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}