La Casa En Mango Street

Praised by critics, admired by readers of all ages, in schools and universities across the country, and translated into a multitude of languages, a new Spanish translation of this classic by Fernanda Melchor is here.

The House on Mango Street is the extraordinary story of Esperanza Cordero. Told through a series of vignettes -- sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyful -- it is the story of a Latina girl growing up in a Chicago neighborhood, inventing for herself what and who she will become. Few books of our era have touched so many readers.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Praised by critics, admired by readers of all ages, in schools and universities across the country, and translated into a multitude of languages, now comes a new Spanish translation by Fernanda Melchor of this classic.

The House on Mango Street tells the extraordinary story of Esperanza Cordero. Told through a series of vignettes -- sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyful -- this is the tale of a Latin girl who grows up in a Chicago neighborhood, discovering for herself what and who she will become. There are only a few books in this era that have touched so many readers.

Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.34w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9781644734285
ISBN10: 1644734281
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General

About the Author
SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of Arts, the MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates, and national and international awards such as the Fifth Star Award from Chicago, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts, which President Obama awarded her in 2016. She also received the Art of Change fellowship from the Ford Foundation and was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200 list. In 2018, she received the PEN/Nabokov International Literature Award.

Her classic work, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into more than twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary schools, high schools, and universities across the country.

In addition to her literary work, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through her two non-profit organizations: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, the group of Latino MacArthur Fellows who are activists in their communities. Her literary works are preserved in Texas at the Wittliff Collections and at Texas State University.

Sandra Cisneros is a citizen of the United States and Mexico, and lives off her work as a writer. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

About the translator

FERNANDA MELCHOR was born in the port of Veracruz, Mexico. She is the author of the chronicle book Aquí no es Miami (2018) and the novels Falsa liebre (2022), Páradais (2021) and Temporada de huracanes (2017), the latter translated into more than 30 languages and a finalist for the prestigious Booker International Prize in 2020. All of them published by Literatura Random House. Her work has received various national and international recognitions, such as the Anna Seghers Prize 2019, the International Literature Prize of Germany, and the PEN Literary Excellence Prize 2018.