num_pages: 160
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” — The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: The House on Mango Street
titlecomplete: The House on Mango Street
characters: Esperanza, Nenny
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Coming Of Age, Poetry, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Classics, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 178367
places: Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Recognition of Merit Award
publisher: Knopf