Another Spaniard In The Works (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
I have noticed some other aspects of Oscar Hijuelos’s work, and while these are not quite so obvious on first reading, they still exist nevertheless. For instance, he was able to invoke a concern for our humanity, for our most intimate longings and fantasies, and he did this with a delicacy of touch and an almost spiritual grace that I find heartbreaking. This profoundly poignant and reassuring quality is present in its most intense form in this story, Another Spaniard in the Works. To be precise about this tone, I’d like to invoke another story of his, Lunch at the Biltmore. Here is one of those exquisitely delicate moments. At the end of Lunch at the Biltmore a scene takes place between a son and a father. Both have been sick, and the son has not been able to eat the rich food that was served in the Cuban household where he was growing up. The father has just had a heart attack and is somewhat frail, but he takes his son to the Biltmore, where the father works, and there he asks a cook to make the son a delicious hamburger, just the variety of food that the son had been forbidden.
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