Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz (Mass Inst of Technology)

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Perfection Learning
Country
United States
Published
2 September 2008
Pages
335
ISBN
9781606868201

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz (Mass Inst of Technology)

The most talked about?and praised?first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who?from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister? dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuk a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere?and risk it all?in the name of love.

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