Our House in the Last World by Oscar Hijuelos

Our House in the Last World by Oscar Hijuelos

Set in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban immigrants, who is haunted by tales of home--a Cuba of ancestral memory, beauty, sensuousness, and ease, a place he has never known--and by the sudden death of his father. His struggle toward adulthood is inseparable from his struggle to understand his Cubanness and to come to terms with his father, an exuberant, charming, and generous hotel cook who drank too much, disappeared for days, and gambled the family's money away. Moving, intimate, and highly autobiographical, this unforgettable novel of immigrant life is written with the same compelling power of language, character, and narrative that won Oscar Hijuelos worldwide acclaim. Includes an Introduction and Afterword by the author, as well as a new Foreword by Pablo Medina, author of Cubop City Blues and the memoir Exiled Memories, aming others.

Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City in 1951 to Cuban parents. He has received numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York in 1951 to Cuban parents. His five previous novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Ives' Christmas, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Our Home in the Last World, and A Simple Havana Melody (Una Sencilla Meloda Habanera) are among his other works. New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York

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ISBN 13	9780892554843
ISBN 10	0892554843
Title	Our House in the Last World
Author	Oscar Hijuelos
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Persea Books Inc
Year published	2017-12-12
Number of pages	240
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