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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Riverhead Trade
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
352 pages ISBN: 1594483299 EAN: 9781594483295 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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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