- Fiction, Mexican Americans, Girls, Short stories
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
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Earnest, contemporary, character-led and prestige.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Sandra Cisneros
- First published
- October 1994
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press Large Print, Vintage Books (first published by Arte Público Press), Aims Intl Books Corp
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, English, glg
- ISBN
- 9788493610197
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