by Junot Díaz · Faber and Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571241231
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«The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao» is the contemporary novel by Junot Díaz, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Oscar de León, an overweight Dominican-American young man, grows up in New Jersey dreaming of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and finding love. The novel interweaves his story with that of his family and their attempts to find love and belonging, with humor, tenderness and references to popular culture.
The novel is Junot Díaz's debut and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007 and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2008.
A read for those seeking contemporary fiction about the Dominican experience in the United States, with humor and cultural references.
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.
