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portada Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.20 x 13.20 x 2.40 cm
ISBN13
9781538722213

Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel

Elizabeth Strout;Oscar Hijuelos (Author) · Grand Central Publishing · Paperback

Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel - Elizabeth Strout;Oscar Hijuelos

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Synopsis "Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel"


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\nA "tender" snapshot of twentieth century New York about a hardworking seamstress turned cleaning woman, with a new cover, reading group guide, and foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout (New York Times Book Review).
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\nPulitzer 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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