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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By Junot Díaz

Book information

Publisher
Riverhead Books
Year
2008
ISBN
1594483299, 9781594483295
Open Library ID
OL23819370M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
419 kB (428816 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
\0
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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