by Junot Díaz · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571179558
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«The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao» is the literary fiction novel by Junot Díaz, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (340 pages, in English).
Oscar de León, a young Dominican-American from New Jersey, dreams of finding love while his family carries the curse known as fukú. The novel combines his story with that of his sister Lola and his mother Belicia, between the Dominican Republic and the United States, from the Trujillo dictatorship.
The cover announces that the novel won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and reproduces a praise from The Observer.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the Dominican diaspora and stories with historical background.
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.
