In that work, Cesar remembers the day he and his brother appeared on an episode of I Love Lucy.
This author created a work in which Kathleen's family does not let her boyfriend step in the house, and in that work a hotel worker reminisces about taking a photograph alongside Khrushchev.  This author also wrote of a man who falls in love with Rosa Valladeres and moves to Europe, after which he is imprisoned at Buchenwald because his name is Israel Levis. In another work by this author of Our House in the Last World, the main character's brother writes "Beautiful Maria of My Soul," and the protagonist remembers having sex with Vanna Vane in the Hotel Splendour during the 1950s. In that work, Cesar remembers the day he and his brother appeared on an episode of I Love Lucy. For 10 points, identify this Cuban-American author of A Simple Havana Melody and The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
This author created a work in which Kathleen's family does not let her boyfriend step in the house, and in that work a hotel worker reminisces about taking a photograph alongside Khrushchev.  
Oscar Hijuelos