Our House in the Last World - Softcover

Oscar Hijuelos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671727222 ISBN 13: 9780671727222

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1990

Synopsis

The Santini family immigrates to New York City from Cuba and struggles to adjust to a new way of life

About this title

About the Author:

Of Cuban descent, Osar Hijuelos was born in New York, where he still lives. His other novels include Mr.Ives' Christmas, Empress of the Splendid Season and The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Review:

?Like an urban poet, [Hijuelos] catalogues New York brilliantly...a fine and painful novel? Philadelphia Inquirer ?There is more than a touch of satire in Mr. Hijuelos? writing, but he never loses the syntax of magic...a loving and deeply felt tribute? New York Times ?A first novel about a Cuban family in new York City, told in an oblique, lyric voice, with an air of absolute authenticity and assurance? Joyce Carol Oates ?Brilliant, this first novel from Cuban New Yorker Hijuelos has a terrible raging power that lifts it clear of the usual sociological categories that semi-sutobiobraphical writing gets consigned to, and manages to hit that Nelson Algren note it which people?s failure in life becomes their personal poetry. I loved it? Time Out

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671727222
• ISBN 13: 9780671727222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253