by Oscar Hijuelos · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422655923
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Las catorce hermanas de Emilio Montez O'Brien» is the novel by Óscar Hijuelos, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (500 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a family half Cuban and half Irish from the birth of their first daughter in 1902. Throughout the twentieth century, the parents and their fifteen children —fourteen girls and one boy, Emilio— compose a choral tale of passions, frustrations and tragedies set in American society.
The work was originally published in English as The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien; this Spanish edition is from 1995.
It will appeal to readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with choral narratives about immigration and American society.
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
