The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
4.0
(6 ratings)335 pages2009Faber & Faber, LimitedISBN 9780571239733
National Book Critics Circle Award Winneraward:national_book_critics_circle_award=2007award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fictionDominican AmericansFictionCharmsLiteraryRites and ceremoniesLiteraturelovefamiliesFiction, cultural heritageDominican americans, fictionNew jersey, fictionDominicano-americanosNovela domésticaNovelaFamiliaFicciónReading Level-Grade 11
About this book
A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back.'The Best Novel of the 21st Century to Date' - BBC Culture.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 335
- ISBN
- 9780571239733
- 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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