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Persea Books
September 2002
On Sale: August 29, 2002
238 pages
ISBN: 0892552832
EAN: 9780892552832
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Fiction
The debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Bearing all the hallmarks of Hijuelos's later
work—exuberance, passion, honesty, and humor—this debut
novel was heralded on its publication twenty years ago as
"virtuoso writing...a novel of great warmth and tenderness"
(New York Times Book Review). Filled with the sights and
sounds of Cuba's Oriente province and New York City, the
music and films of the fifties, lusty fantasies and the
toughest of life's realities, it is the unforgettable story
of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban
immigrants, who is haunted by tales of "home" (a Cuba he has
never seen) and by the excesses and then the death of his
loving father. This edition includes a new autobiographical
introduction by the author, reflecting on how he came to
write Our House in the Last World, and a new afterword in
which he comments on the story.
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