Our House in the Last World
A Novel
$38.19
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2024
Summary
A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in 1940s New York in the debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
New York City, 1944. Hector Santinio is the younger son of Cuban immigrants Alejo and Mercedes. The fraught family of four shares their small, modest apartment with extended relatives in raucous Spanish Harlem. There are parties, dancing, and dreamy, homesick storytelling about their idyllic island. But life’s realities are…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781538722251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1538722259 |
| Author: | Oscar Hijuelos, Junot Díaz |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Never loses the syntax of magic … a novel of great warmth and tenderness.”–New York Times Book Review
“A story that stands up for the dignity of American immigrants.”–Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was Puerto Rican
“Elegiac as well as bittersweet and celebratory.”–Publishers Weekly
“Marked by eloquently trimmed prose, great assurance, and uncompromising darkness.”–Kirkus
About The Author
Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been translated into more than 40 languages.
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