The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien by Oscar Hijuelos - ISBN: 9781538722237
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A sprawling, passionate Irish-Cuban family’s journey through love, loss, and life.

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

A Novel

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    29 October 2024

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Summary

“Soaring, matchless prose,” a Pulitzer Prize winner pens a New York Times bestselling saga of the Montez O’Briens, a rambunctious family of Irish Cuban immigrants comprised of fourteen daughters—and one doggedly masculine son.

Irish American Nelson O’Brien fell passionately in love with the poetess Mariela Montez while photographing the ravages of battle in Mariela’s native Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After marrying, they moved to the United States to start a new life, settl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781538722237
ISBN-10:1538722232
Author:Oscar Hijuelos, Gary Soto
Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
Imprint:Grand Central Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:29 October 2024
Weight:420g
Dimensions:204mm x 132mm x 36mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A beautiful pastorale, loosely based on the idea of the limited text implied by photographs, in which the lives of 17 characters are developed … Hijuelos composes women’s stories with a loving hand.”–Library Journal
“A marvelous novel…[Hijuelos’s] range is impressive, his storytelling fluid…his scope exuberant and full of life.”–San Francisco Chronicle
“Exuberant, richly detailed.”–The New Yorker
“Matchless, soaring prose.”–Publishers Weekly
“Nobody writes about sensuality, nostalgia and matters of the heart more exuberantly than Oscar Hijuelos.”–Chicago Tribune
“One finishes The Fourteen Sisters reluctantly, the way one finishes a long letter from a beloved family member…” –New York Times

About The Author

Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been translated into more than 40 languages.

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