The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Pennsylvania, Cuba, and Ireland
- Principal Characters: Nelson O’Brien, Mariela Montez, Margarita Montez O’Brien, Emilio Montez O’Brien
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: California
Oscar Hijuelos’ third novel is a wide-ranging chronicle of the lives, loves, struggles, and interrelationships of the fifteen children of an Irish man, Nelson O’Brien, and a Cuban woman, Mariela Montez, who have settled in a small town in Pennsylvania. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien is presented in the form of an album of continuous memories, verbal photographs, and nostalgic images, clustered around major events in the lives of the family members. It is recounted in associative rather than chronological order, and it deliberately creates the effect of...
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