A Simple Habana Melody : from when the world was good)
by Oscar Hijuelos
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060175699
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175696
- Seller
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About This Item
Harper & Row, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 342 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper & Row, New York, 2002. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Remainder mark on page edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his name.) When Levis arrives back in Habana, after an absence of many years, his mind is reeling with beautiful memories of his life in Cuba and in Paris before the war, a life of pleasure and excitement that he owes, in part, to an unrequited, nearly "chivalrous" romance with a certain Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras," or "Pretty Roses." This 1928 composition becomes the most famous rumba in the world and changes both American and European tastes in music and dance - forever; and it is the song, symbolic of the composer's love for Rita Valladares, that sets Levis's life in Europe in motion. This is at once a love story - for art, family and country - as well as a portrait of Habana at the turn of the last century, when "the world was good." A Simple Habana Melody is a virtuoso performance from one of our most important writers. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0060175699. ISBN/EAN: 9780060175696. Inventory No: 14090252.. 9780060175696
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14090252
- Title
- A Simple Habana Melody : from when the world was good)
- Author
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060175699
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175696
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; A Simple Habana Melody : from when the world was good)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Fiction;
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