The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
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| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2008-09-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1594483299 |
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—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 fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
| Author | : Junot Diaz |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0571246206 |
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 Fukú - 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.
| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1594632855 |
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1997-07-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101147148 |
From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.
| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2018-03-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0735230951 |
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: “Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
| Author | : Rigoberto González |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781935536369 |
Built from the lives and stories of undocumented immigrants, these mournful, mystical poems are artifact, a cry for remembrance
| Author | : Jim Crace |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2018-06-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385543727 |
Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal. Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished to fan the flames of old rumor—of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest. It is also used to spark new controversy, inspiring claims that something must finally be done about the town’s poor, whose numbers have been growing. In trademark crystalline prose, Jim Crace portrays a man taking stock of his life and looking into an uncertain future, while bearing witness to a community in the throes of great change.
| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780544582897 |
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
| Author | : Eve Hayes de Kalaf |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2021-11-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1785277669 |
This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
| Author | : Junot Diaz |
| Publisher | : Faber Stories |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2019-10-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780571355990 |
