The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
3.7
(403 ratings)360 pages32 editions2007Faber & Faber, LimitedISBN 9780571239733
About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN
- 9780571239733
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 32
About Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) 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. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,* and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
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