by Junot Díaz · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467233544
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«La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao» is the novel by Junot Díaz, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (330 pages, in Spanish).
Óscar de León, a young Dominican-American raised in New Jersey, grows up obsessed with science fiction and fantasy while seeking love and acceptance. His story intertwines with that of his family and the fukú, a curse that haunts them, and with the memory of Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
Translation by Achy Obejas of the original The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008.
Suitable for book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction interested in Dominican history and diaspora.
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.
