Our House in the Last World (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, New York City, Poverty or poor people, Child abuse, Immigration or emigration, Reality, Violence, Multiculturalism, Death or dying, Health, Cuba or Cubans, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Bilingualism, Latinos
- Locales: New York, NY, Cuba, Miami, FL
A Bildungsroman and Künstlerroman about an unhappy family of Cuban immigrants struggling in Spanish Harlem, Hijuelos's first published novel culminates with Hector Santinio's declaration of redemptive literary ambition: “I think that one day I would like to write a book, something that would so please my mother and my Pop, if he was still alive.” Our House in the Last World is just such a book, a text that, for the autobiographical Hector Santinio, as for his author Hijuelos, preserves and honors the tribulations of a working-class family struggling to succeed...
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