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In this 2002 interview, Ray Suarez speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos about his new book, A Simple Habana Melody: From When the World was Good. It's the story of a Cuban composer whose 1928 Rumba composition, Rosas Poros, or Pretty Roses, takes Europe and America by storm.