The Santinios came from rural Cuba to New York City in the 1940's. Hector, their younger son, was born in New York but is hautend by tales of "home" - a mythical Cuba of anscestral memory, beauty, sensuousness, and ease. His struggle toward manhood is inseparable from his sruggle to understand his cultural identity and to come to terms with his father Alejo, a generous, exuberant man whom women love, a hotel cook with ambitious dreams of success - but a man who also disappears for days, and drinks and gambles the family's money away.
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From Publishers Weekly
The chaotic experience of Cubans transplanted to New York City throbs through the narrator's voice in this debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love . "Elegiac as well as bittersweet and celebratory, the lusty tone of this novel compensates for its erratic structure," stated PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist launched his career with this 1983 title. The autobiographical work is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santino. Born in New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hector learns about his parent's native country and his heritage through their stories. This edition contains a new introduction and afterword by Hijuelos.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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OSCAR HIJUELOS, the son of Cuban immigrants, is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His seven novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in New York City and spends part of the year in Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches at Duke University.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is excellent,
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This review is from: Our House in the Last World (Paperback)
It brings you into the beautiful world of Cuba and New York City. It gets you nostalgic for your own country. Hijuelos takes you through Cuban and American history with a flow. He pulls you into the Santinios family and lets you share their ups and downs with them. A great book for anyone.
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I just finished this novel/memoir, and was in tears for much of the reading. I love all of Oscar Hijuelos' writing, but this was truly the best of the best. It belongs with the great world classics, a heartbreaking chronicle of the human condition. Hijuelos' heart is as big as Knut Hamsun's, and his characters will live with me forever. Thank you, Mr. Hijuelos, from the bottom of MY heart, for explaining to me why I could not cry when my mother died, and thank you, too, for illuminating the dark corners of all our lives. I am so glad you had the courage to take up the pen.
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