by Óscar Hijuelos · Editorial Everest · tapa dura · ISBN 9788444143163
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«Dark Dude» is the young adult novel by Óscar Hijuelos, published by Editorial Everest in hardback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Rico Fuentes, a fifteen-year-old Cuban-American teenager, grows up in Harlem in the late sixties. His light skin and blond hair bring him mockery and harassment from Latinos and African Americans, who call him 'dark dude'. The novel narrates his effort to find his identity and escape a violent environment marked by racism.
Spanish translation by Alberto Jiménez Rioja. First edition published in 2009; recommended reading from age 14.
For young readers of realistic coming-of-age fiction about identity, racism and belonging.
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
