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.