by Sandra Cisneros · L'Altra Tribu · tapa dura · ISBN 9788412209761
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«La casa de Mango Street» is Sandra Cisneros's coming-of-age novel, published by L'Altra Tribu in hardback (152 pages, in Catalan).
Esperanza, a Latina teenager, narrates her life in a Hispanic neighbourhood of Chicago through vignettes full of humour and lyricism. Dreams of a house of her own, chats with her sister and friends, and the neighbours' stories shape her sentimental education as she seeks her identity and future.
Volume 6 of the L'Altra Tribu collection. Original work from 1984, translated from English by Míriam Cano Manzano, with illustrations by Núria Solsona.
Aimed at young and adult readers, it is a common set text in schools for its blend of coming-of-age narrative and poetic prose.
Sandra Cisneros is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1984), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work includes experimentation with emerging subject positions, which Cisneros attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature.
