The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Not Since " The Stand"

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	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Riverhead Trade, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 203 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The most talked about?and praised?first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who?from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister? dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú?a curse that has haunted Oscar?s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere?and risk it all?in the name of love.

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Well Deserved Pulitzer Winner

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead Books 2007)

Brilliant, acerbic and filled with the love of revenge that writers are famous for: revenge for being black, being poor, being Dominican, and revenge for being smarter than the monsters who pervert the course of the world, both politically and personally. (Would that every dictator great and small could achieve such an excoriating epitaph as the DR's Trujillo does in this book.) It's also filled with love--just plain love. A wondrous book, not brief, with an irreverence you can't buy these days. It's the real thing, the genuine article: inspired, comic, brilliant and moving. It's also grateful. It pisses in the face of the world and then says `Thank you.' Oscar Wao is a fatboy nerd who wants to be JRR Tolkien and marry J-Lo (or the next nearest best thing.) His tale is probably far more common than we imagine, because he's exactly the kind of person who gets noticed last, and always too late. Not this time, however, for this book plants him dead centre in the spotlight, where he belongs. Think Zadie Smith before she got all awards-conscious, Gabriel García-Marquez in his finest moments, Richard Pryor in some of his zaniest, and you have Oscar Wao's life as told by Dominican immigrant Díaz. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

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Not Since " The Stand"

OMG!!! Not since the stand have I been this moved by a book. 1st things 1st. I have 16 brothers and sisters. The 2 brothers I was closest with, have a different father than I do. My brothers last name....Wao. I grew up A spanglish spewing, Marvel (and sometimes DC) comic loving,(who's grand-parents escaped from El Trujillo and moved to...) I am a Puerto Rican. I am a geek. I am from Jersey. I am Ely Rodriguez. I am Oscar Wao.

Impressive

This book delves into layers of history, despots, struggle, and the courage of everyday human beings in a less than welcoming world. A masterpiece!

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spanish readers only

if you can read spanish this book is for you. most of punchh lines are in spanish i did not understand alot of the book

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