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Beautiful Maria of My Soul
Author: Oscar Hijuelos
Narrator: Armando Durn
Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/01/2010
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.Shes the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillos heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings biggest hit, Beautiful Maria of My Soul. Now in her sixties and living in Miami with her pediatrician daughter, Teresa, Maria remains a beauty, still capable of turning heads. But she has never forgotten Nestor, and as she thinks back to her daysand nightsin Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds.