by Sandra Cisneros · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679734772
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«The House on Mango Street» is Sandra Cisneros's coming-of-age novel, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (110 pages, in English).
Esperanza Cordero, a Mexican-American girl growing up in a poor Chicago neighbourhood, narrates in short vignettes her life and that of her surroundings. The protagonist talks about her family, her neighbours, poverty and racism, and at the same time discovers herself through words and her desire to have a house of her own.
The work, originally published in 1984, won the American Book Award in 1985 and this edition belongs to the Vintage Contemporaries collection (number 6).
A common read in schools and book clubs, suitable for those seeking a brief classic about identity, family and community.
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.
