by Oscar Hijuelos · Persea Books Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780892551651
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«Our House in the Last World» is the novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published by Persea Books Inc in paperback (235 pages, in English).
Héctor Santinio, son of Cuban immigrants born in New York, grows up between the stories of a Cuba he does not know and the life of his father, marked by excess and death. The novel recreates the province of Oriente and the New York of the fifties, with its music and movies, and addresses identity, family and belonging.
It is the first novel by Oscar Hijuelos, author winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; it was originally published in 1983.
For readers of contemporary fiction and narrative about the Cuban American immigrant experience in the United States.
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
