The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
14.99 €
The novel by the American writer of Dominican origin was published in 2007 and in the following year, 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize, the John Sargent Prize and the National Critics Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Dublin Prize. Amazing in its complexity and versatility, the novel has been compared by critics with glee to Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. A poetic mixture of Spanish and American English; magical elements; a new cultural layer, for the first time penetrated at such a serious level in literature - comic books; the history of the Dominican Republic, a family saga; a novel of growing up, a parable full of humor. In short, Junot Diaz has fit so much into one novel that no other good writer can fit into his entire oeuvre. Everything in the life of Oscar, a kind but sadly obese romantic and fan of comics and science fiction from the Spanish-speaking ghetto in New Jersey, dreaming of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien, but above all - to find love, at least some. But his dreams would remain dreams if it weren't for the fuku, an ancient curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations. Prison, torture and suffering, tragic accidents and, most sadly, unhappy love - this is the fate of Oscar's family. His mother Beli, a divine beauty with an indomitable and violent temper, experienced the full force of the family curse. His sister tried to escape the inevitable. And Oskar, who has dreamed of his first kiss since he was a boy, would have been just another victim of the fuku, had he not decided to rid his family of the terrible curse one momentous summer.
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