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, 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 Fukú**--**the curse that has haunted
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.
Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the
family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy,
humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately,
the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and
loss. A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
confirms Junot Díaz as one of the best and most exciting voices of our
time.
