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The House on Mango Street

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In her acclaimed debut work, Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza's thoughts and emotions are expressed in her fable-like poems and stories, which portray the alternating beauty and desolation of her life and its realities. Esperanza doesn't want to belong—not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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."

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F CIS h

Publisher

New York : Vintage - Penguin Random House., 2009

Collation

13 x 20 cm. + 110 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780679734772

Classification

F CIS h

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9780679734772
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The House on Mango Street

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Pluit putri library

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Sandra Cisneros

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