The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781594489587; 9780739494288
Subjects: Dominican Americans; Fiction
Description: Publisher description: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
Notes: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008