by Junot Díaz · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439720942
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«La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao» is the novel by Junot Díaz published by Random House in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
Óscar, a young Dominican from New Jersey, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love while his family carries the fukú, a curse that seems to doom them to disaster. With humor and magical realism, the novel intertwines family history with Trujillo's dictatorship and the Dominican migrant experience.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008. Spanish translation by Achy Obejas; original in English: «The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao».
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and magical realism, interested in the Dominican experience in the United States.
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.
