The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781594483295
Subjects: Dominican Americans
Genres: American Contemporary Fiction
First sentence: They say it came first from Africa, carried on 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.
Description: Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
Notes: First Riverhead trade paperback edition.