Our House In The Last World

Bearing all the hallmarks of Hijueloss later work exuberance passionhonesty and humor this debut novel was heralded on its publication twentyyears ago as virt... » 

Bearing all the hallmarks of Hijueloss later work exuberance passionhonesty and humor this debut novel was heralded on its publication twentyyears ago as virtuoso writing . . . a novel of great warmth and tendernessNew York Times Book Review. Filled with the sights and sounds of CubasOriente province and New York City the music and films of the fifties lustyfantasies and the toughest of lifes realities it is the unforgettable storyof Hector Santinio the Americanborn son of Cuban immigrants who is hauntedby tales of home a Cuba he has never seen and by the excesses and then thedeath of his loving father.This edition includes a new autobiographical introduction by the authorreflecting on how he came to write Our House in the Last World and a newafterword in which he comments on the story. «