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Название книги: Beautiful María of My Soul
Автор(ы): Oscar Hijuelos
Жанр: Современная проза
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© 2010Beautiful María of My Soul Or the True Story of María García y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song
TO THE MEMORY OFAUGUST WILSON AND GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE
PART I. Cuba, 1947
Chapter ONE
Over forty years before, when Nestor Castillo’s future love, one María García y Cifuentes, left her beloved valle in the far west of Cuba, she could have gone to the provincial capital of Pinar del Río, where her prospects for finding work might be as good-or bad-as in any place; but because the truck driver who’d picked her up one late morning, his gargoyle face hidden under the lowered brim of a lacquered cane hat, wasn’t going that way and because she’d heard so many things-both wonderful and sad-about Havana, María decided to accompany him, that cab stinking to high heaven from the animals in the back and from the thousands of hours he must have driven that truck with its loud diesel engine and manure-stained floor without a proper cleaning. He couldn’t have been more simpático