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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

3

awards won

37

score

#14 of 8,085 books · #8 in Fiction

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2007), and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2008). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú—the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph that confirms Junot Díaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time. The novel was ranked #11 on the New York Times list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571246205
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family curse and generational traumaImmigrant experience and identityComing of ageDominican history and diasporaLove and unrequited longing

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