by Junot Díaz · ISBN 9788439742395
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel by Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, published in 2007. The novel tells the story of Oscar Wao, an obese and marginalized young Dominican man living in New Jersey who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy. Through Oscar's story, Díaz explores themes such as identity, immigration, Dominican history, and the weight of family legacy.
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.
