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Oscar Hijuelos’s first novel, Our House in the Last World (1982), concerns a New Yorker who is haunted by the stories his parents tell of Oriente province in Cuba, where they emigrated from before his birth. A re-issue of this novel with a new afterward by Hijuelos was published in 2002 by Persea Press.
In Hijuelos’s novel A Simple Habana Melody: From When the World Was Good (2002), Cuban music and nostalgia again are major themes: a Cuban composer, travelling in Europe in the 1940s, ends up mistakenly interred in the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
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