by Junot Díaz · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483466094
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«La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao» is the novel by Junot Díaz, published by Debolsillo in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Óscar Wao is a young Dominican raised in a New Jersey neighborhood, a fan of fantasy and science fiction, who dreams of writing like Tolkien and finding love. His story intertwines with that of his family and with the fukú, an inherited curse that marks the Waos with tragedies and heartbreaks across generations.
The work is Junot Díaz's first novel and won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. This edition is part of Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in the Dominican-American experience and magical realism.
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.
