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La brève et merveilleuse vie d'Oscar Wao

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La saga tragi-comique d'une famille dominicaine émigrée aux États-Unis dans une banlieue du New Jersey, à travers le regard d'Oscar, obèse et recalé de l'amour en quête d'absolu. Nourrie des destins de ses aïeux brisés par la torture, la prison, l'exil et les amours impossibles, l'histoire d'Oscar s'écrit, fulgurante et désastreuse.

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Publisher
Plon
Language
French
Pages
293

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Cover of: La Brve Et Merveilleuse Vie Doscar Wao
La Brve Et Merveilleuse Vie Doscar Wao
2010, 10 * 18
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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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008, Riverhead Books
Paperback in English
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
February 6, 2008, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Lrg edition
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La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao
2008, Vintage Español
in Spanish
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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
September 6, 2007, Riverhead Hardcover
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007, Riverhead Books
in English
Cover of: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
2007, Riverhead Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Traduction de : The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.

Published in
Paris
Series
Feux croisés

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PS3554 I22B74 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 pages
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28419573M
Internet Archive
labreveetmerveil0000diaz
ISBN 10
225918555X
ISBN 13
9782259185554
OCLC/WorldCat
319953960

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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