The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
About this book
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.
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.
Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph, that confirms Junot Díaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.
Subjects
- 813/.54
- américains d'origine dominicaine
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2007
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
- charms
- charms--fiction
- conditions sociales
- dominican americans
- dominican americans -- fiction
- dominican americans, fiction
- dominican americans--fiction
- dominicano-americanos
- dominicas americanas
- eccentrics and eccentricities
- familia
- families
- famille
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, cultural heritage
- fiction, family life, general
- hommes obèses
- interpersonal relations
- large type books
- literary
- literature
- loss (psychology)
- love
- misfits (persons)
- mœurs et coutumes
- national book critics circle award winner
- new jersey, fiction
- new york times bestseller
- novela
- novela doméstica
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-09-21
- open library staff picks
- overweight men
- ps3554.i259 b75 2007
- ps3554.i259 b75 2008
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- rites and ceremonies
- romans, nouvelles