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- Number of Pages: 368
- ISBN: 1594483299
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111839290
- Release Date: September 2, 2008
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(1 customer review)
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #413 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #31 in Miscellaneous (See Top 100 Miscellaneous Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Junot Diaz (Author)Discover More Information About Junot Diaz (Author)Run a Quick Search on "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"Browse more products related to "Junot Diaz"Review"[T]his fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz." "Diaz's brilliance shines...with a carnivalesque mix of fantasy and gallows humor." "It's been 11 years since Junot Diaz published his acclaimed story collection, DROWN, and he has spent the time well, honing the sharp, slangy voice that propels his terrific first novel....Narrated in high-energy Spanglish...erudite and hilarious...it is a joy to read, and every bit as exhilarating to reread." "Diaz's voice sweeps together ghetto slang, pop cultural nods and winks, puns, historiographic excursuses, and blunt, unsentimental lyricism.....[The novel] proposes a defiant new model of immigrant personhood." "Diaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist." (starred review) "[T]his fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz." First lineThey say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. AnnotationOscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American ghetto whose dreams are cut short by the 500-year curse that has plagued his family and his people, "The Curse of the New World." In his first novel since his universally revered collection of short stories, DROWN, Junot Diaz continues to distill the essence of the fractured second-generation experience. The rich tapestry of language in the novel (slang, Spanish, and the poetry of Homer) speaks volumes about the complicated and violent paths by which we find our place in the world. If You Enjoy "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
Customer Reviews for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)" by Junot Diaz (Author)Most Recent Customer Reviews  A culture pastiche of wondrous proportions, December 8, 2008
By Book Reviewer
This novel is a uniquely modern examination of the cross-cultural and
generational divide between immigrant children and there parents. Filled with
pop-cultural references from Dungeons and Dragons and Lord of The Rings to Kanye
West, written in a fast-paced Spanglish that feels authentic and like a
testament to the books examination of cultural distinctions, the Wondrous life
of Oscar Wao is a modern masterpiece, every bit as intriguing as a
socuo-cultural commentary as the coming-of-age of a second generation American
immigrant. A Tour de force, I would highly recommend this novel.
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