Name: Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel (en Inglés)
Price: 72393.00 COP
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Strout;Oscar Hijuelos
ISBN: 9781538722213

portada Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel (en Inglés)

Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Grand Central Publishing

Autor

Elizabeth Strout;Oscar Hijuelos

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.20 x 13.20 x 2.40 cm

ISBN13

9781538722213

Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel (en Inglés)

Elizabeth Strout;Oscar Hijuelos (Autor) · Grand Central Publishing · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 17 a 24 días háb.

$ 120.655$ 72.393

-40%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 72.393

Llega entre el 23 Jul y el 04 Ago a Bogota, Cundinamarca. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Empress of the Splendid Season. A Novel (en Inglés)"

\n
\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).
\n
\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.