Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World
Our House in the Last World
Buch
- Grand Central Publishing, 04/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781538722251
- Bestellnummer: 11740812
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 222 g
- Maße: 203 x 133 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.4.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut––and most autobiographical––novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize
Hector Santinio is the younger 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 hospitalization back in the United States where, isolated from his family, he loses much of his ability to speak 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.
In this profoundly moving account of immigrant life, Oscar Hijuelos displays, once again, his mastery over both character and language—and sets readers on an unforgettable journey of hope, longing, and self-discovery.
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
Biografie
Oscar Hijuelos wurde am 1951 als Sohn kubanischer Einwanderer in New York geboren. Er spielte bereits früh Gitarre in puerto-ricanischen Bands und studierte Literatur am New Yorker City College. Seine sechs Romane für Erwachsene wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet und zum Teil verfilmt. Für 'Die Mambo Kings spielen Songs der Liebe' erhielt Oscar Hijuelos 1990 als erster Latino-Schriftsteller den Pulitzer-Preis. Oscar Hijuelos
Our House in the Last World
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