Our House in the Last World

by Hijuelos, Oscar

• ISBN13: 9780892550692
• ISBN10: 0892550694
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1983-03-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Cuba, 1929-1943	11	(25)
America, 1944-1947	36	(18)
An Evening, 1951	54	(12)
A Pleasant Day, Late Spring, 1954	66	(8)
Cuba, Cuba, 1954	74	(11)
The Cuban Illness, 1954-1955	85	(14)
Another Day, 1958	99	(25)
Horacio, 1962	124	(9)
Alejo Santinio, 1962-1963	133	(19)
Visitors, 1965	152	(18)
Dark Ignorance, 1967-1969	170	(20)
Final Evening, 1969	190	(10)
Ghosts, 1969-1975	200	(23)
Voices from the Last World	223