商品簡介
The magisterial final novel from Oscar Hijuelos, acclaimed author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.TWAIN AND STANLEY ENTER PARADISE follows famed 19th century journalist-explorer Henry Stanley, his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant, and Stanley's long friendship with Mark Twain, as they venture to Cuba in search of Stanley's father. Told through a fictitious manuscript and imagined correspondence between Stanley, Tennant, and Twain, Hijuelos captures not only the general style of educated 19th century, but manages to pull off the seemingly impossible task of channeling Mark Twain himself. The manuscript--in the works for decades--was found by Hijuelos's widow after his death.
作者簡介
Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City in 1951. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recipient of the Rome Prize, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His novels--The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Our House in the Last World, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien,Mr. Ives' Christmas, Empress of the Splendid Season, A Simple Habana Melody, Dark Dude,and Beautiful Maria of My Soul--have been translated into more than 30 languages. He died on October 12, 2013.
