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Synopsis
Oscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American ghetto whose dreams are cut short by the 500-year curse that has plagued his family and his people, "The Curse of the New World." In his first novel since his universally revered collection of short stories, DROWN, Junot Diaz continues to distill the essence of the fractured second-generation experience. The rich tapestry of language in the novel (slang, Spanish, and the poetry of Homer) speaks volumes about the complicated and violent paths by which we find our place in the world. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2008.
| Size | | Length: | 335 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 10.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles."
Industry Reviews
"Diaz's voice sweeps together ghetto slang, pop cultural nods and winks, puns, historiographic excursuses, and blunt, unsentimental lyricism.....[The novel] proposes a defiant new model of immigrant personhood."
(11/26/2007)
"[T]his fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz."
(06/18/2007)
"Diaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist." (starred review)
(07/15/2007)
"It's been 11 years since Junot Diaz published his acclaimed story collection, DROWN, and he has spent the time well, honing the sharp, slangy voice that propels his terrific first novel....Narrated in high-energy Spanglish...erudite and hilarious...it is a joy to read, and every bit as exhilarating to reread."
(08/31/2007)
"Diaz's brilliance shines...with a carnivalesque mix of fantasy and gallows humor."
(09/01/2007)
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