America, the ?last world?, holds out many promises to the Santinio family from Cuba. For Alejo, the father, it means escape from the dreary farm of San Pedro and, perhaps, a business of his own. For Mercedes, his wife, America is the last of the material worlds. Still she has had other lives and will lives again, after her death. For the sons, Horacio and Hector, the ?last world? is not only New York, but also Cuba - a place of sensuous beauty, fragrance and ancestral memory. Filled with ghosts and the delicate presence of flowers, the sensuality of Cuban rhythms and the reality of Manhattan, Our House in the Last World is a work of beauty about people stranded between two cultures whose search for a better life remains unfulfilled.
- ISBN10 1852421053
- ISBN13 9781852421052
- Publish Date 1 June 1987 (first published 1 May 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English