Hijuelos, Oscar Jerome,    1951-2013  <br/><br/>
A simple Habana melody :   a novel / 
Oscar Hijuelos. 
 - New York :  Perennial,   2003 
 - 342 pages ;   21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Nota del autor (p.343) 
<br/><br/>Author of the Pulitzer Prize Winner (The mambo kinfs play songs of love) (portd.) 
<br/><br/> It is 1947, and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love, and sadness, returns to Cuba after being mistakenly imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of France. When Levis arrives back in Habana, his mind returns to an unrequited romance with the alluring Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras." This 1928 composition became the most famous rumba in the world and changed American and European tastes in music and dance forever. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060928697 9780060928698 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelas históricas<br/>Novela estadounidense<br/>Literatura estadounidense<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.<br/>Havana (Cuba)--Fiction.<br/>Composers--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Women singers--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Musical fiction.<br/>Love stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3558  / H639s 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54