by Oscar Hijuelos · Viking/Allen Lane · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374158156
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«The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien» is Oscar Hijuelos's family novel, published by Viking/Allen Lane in hardback (484 pages).
The novel portrays the Montez O'Brien family: Nelson, an Irish immigrant, and Mariela, a Cuban of aristocratic origin, settle in Pennsylvania with fourteen daughters and one son, Emilio. From the memory of Margarita, the eldest daughter, loves, losses, and the identity of a family between two cultures are narrated, including Emilio's time in Hollywood.
The novel was published in 1993. Text in English. Oscar Hijuelos won the Pulitzer Prize for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
For readers of family and historical fiction interested in the immigrant experience and Cuban-Irish culture in the United States.
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.
