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La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao / Junot Díaz ; traducción de Achy Obejas.
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- ISBN: 0679776699 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780679776697 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 347 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1. ed. Vintage Español.
- Publisher: Nueva York : Vintage Español, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | Una crónica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos países, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordiflón y solitario Oscar de León en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada búsqueda del amor. Pero Oscar sólo es la última víctima del fukú--una maldición que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condenándoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado. Con unos personajes inolvidables y una prosa vibrante e hipnótica, esta novela confirma a Junot Díaz como una de las mejores y más deslumbrantes voces de nuestra época, y nos ofrece una sobrecogedora visión de la inagotable capacidad humana para perseverar y arriesgarlo todo por amor. |
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| Subject: | Dominican Americans > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Dominicano-americanos > Novela. Novela doméstica. Familia > Novela. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Southbury Public Library | 863.54 DIAZ (Text) | 34019124730565 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Willimantic Public Library | SPANISH 813.54 D (Text) | 34036103691709 | Adult Nonfiction in Spanish | Available | - |
La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Ãscar Wao / the Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Ãscar Wao / the Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot DÃaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography)
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