The House on Mango Street

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A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros's beloved coming-of-age novel about a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago. The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. "In English my name means hope," she says. "In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heart breaking, sometimes joyous-Cisneros's masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery. It is also one of the greatest neighbourhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis' Main Street or Toni Morrison's Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. Acclaimed by critics, a staple in schools, translated into dozens of languages, this gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one's story and of being proud of where you come from.

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Cisneros is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one * The New York Times Book Review *
The subtle power of Cisneross storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world. * San Francisco Chronicle *
A deeply moving novel . . . Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word * Miami Herald *

Author Bio

Sandra Cisneros (Author) SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her awards include NEA fellowships in poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN America Literary Award, the National Medal of Arts, the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, and the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. A citizen of the United States and Mexico, Cisneros lives in San Miguel de Allende. John Phillip Santos (External Editor) JOHN PHILLIP SANTOS, born in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican-American Rhodes Scholar. His awards include the Academy of American Poets' Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News.