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Author:

Hijuelos, Oscar.

Title:

Our house in the last world / Oscar Hijuelos ; foreword by Junot Díaz.

Edition:

First Grand Central Publishing edition.

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

xx, 244 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Cubans--New York--New York--Fiction.
Cuban American families--Fiction.
Cuban Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Group identity--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--20th century--Fiction.
Cubains--New York--New York--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles américaines d'origine cubaine--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Américains d'origine cubaine--Mœurs et coutumes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Identité--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Identité collective--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
New York (N.Y.)--Mœurs et coutumes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Domestic fiction.

Other Authors:

Díaz, Junot, 1968- writer of foreword.

Notes:

First published by Persea Books in 1983. Includes reading group guide.

Summary:

"Hector Santinio is the youngest son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life's realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family's adoptive land. When Mercedes takes Hector and his brother to visit Cuba, to better know her culture, Hector contracts a serious illness that leads to a terrifying period of hospitalizations back in the United States where, isolated from his family, he loses much of his ability to speack Spanish. And it is this fracturing that sparks a lifelong quest to not only reconcile his Cuban identity with his American one, but to also understand his parents' ambitions and anxieties within the country at large."-- back cover.

ISBN:

1538722259
9781538722251

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1430230421

Locations:

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)