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Drown

by Junot Díaz

3.9
(11 ratings)
240 pages1997PenguinISBN 9781573226066

About this book

<b>From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World.</b><br>  <br> A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power,<i> Drown</i> introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.<br>  

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin
Published
1997
Pages
240
ISBN
9781573226066
Language
en

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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