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An edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who 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 fuku - a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back again.

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Penguin Audio
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English
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2007, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Dominican Americans, Fiction, Large type books, Charms, Literary, Rites and ceremonies, Literature, love, families, Fiction, cultural heritage, Dominican americans, fiction, New jersey, fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Families, Dominicano-americanos, Novela doméstica, Novela, Familia, Ficción, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Overweight men, Dominicas americanas, Dominican Americans -- Fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-09-21, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Dominican americans, Dominican americans--fiction, Ps3554.i259 b75 2007, 813/.54, Charms--fiction, Ps3554.i259 b75 2008, Américains d'origine dominicaine, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Romans, nouvelles, Famille, Hommes obèses, Misfits (Persons), Eccentrics and eccentricities, Loss (Psychology), Interpersonal relations
Places
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, New Jersey, République dominicaine
Times
20e siècle

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La Brve Et Merveilleuse Vie Doscar Wao
2010, 10 * 18
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Cover of: La brève et merveilleuse vie d'Oscar Wao
La brève et merveilleuse vie d'Oscar Wao
2009, Plon
in French
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La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao - 1. edición
2008, Penguin Random House
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
February 6, 2008, Thorndike Press
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008, Riverhead Books
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La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao
2008, Vintage Español
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007, Riverhead Books
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
2007, Riverhead Books
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
September 6, 2007, Riverhead Hardcover
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
September 6, 2007, Penguin Audio
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First Sentence

"They 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."

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Open Library
OL7362095M
ISBN 10
0143142801
ISBN 13
9780143142805
Library Thing
3165787
Goodreads
1421470

Work Description

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.

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