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TITLE: THE FOURTEEN SISTERS OF EMILIO MONTEZ O'BRIEN...
...York City during the 1950s, deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize three years ago, making him the first Latino novelist so honored. But this time out, Hijuelos has decided to tell his story through a woman's eyes. Make that 14 women's eyes. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is the title of his latest novel, and the book oozes with femininity -- or at least with Hijuelos' version...
...marries the young and beautiful Mariela Montez. After the couple returns to the farm O'Brien owns in a small Pennsylvania town, he works as the local photographer and operates the community's movie theater, while she keeps busy bearing and rearing their 14 daughters and, finally, one son, Emilio Montez O'Brien...
...ambitious book whose events span a century, and right at the beginning Hijuelos announces his intention to take his time telling it. "A lot of people wrongly discount the quality of photographs produced by the type of camera I use," Nelson O'Brien tells his son Emilio in the quote that opens the book. "But this apparatus, in my opinion, captures not only the superficial qualities of its subjects but also, because of the time it takes to properly collect light, their feelings, as they settle on the subjects' expressions; sadness and joy and worry, with variations therein, are collected...
...Commandante Gutierrez (Jonathan Fried) enters trailing a long tube of flickering lights behind him that conducts electrodes into his mechanical frame, operated by the real, unseen dictator in a far-off control room. His counterpart is Uyttersprot (Jack Willis), an embittered flunky who plots to bring down sainted Don Emilio Valverde (Alvin Epstein), the resident intellectual conscience. The means of his destruction will be the cheap and lovely Violet (Maggie Rush), an entertainer of sorts. It does not come as a surprise to learn that Violet, ungrateful and naive, was formerly employed in a fish factory before her rescue...