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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
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Loved this tale of the trials and tribulations of Oscar Wao. Audio is definitely the way to go for non-Spanish speakers because you can pick up many meanings from context and intonation. (I also found a glossary online that was put together by a fan).
The narrator of this tale is Yunior, who I've met before in Diaz linked story collection, This Is How You Lose Her(which until recently I thought was a novel). I like him much better in Oscar Wao, although he still seems to have a problem with promi ...more
The narrator of this tale is Yunior, who I've met before in Diaz linked story collection, This Is How You Lose Her(which until recently I thought was a novel). I like him much better in Oscar Wao, although he still seems to have a problem with promi ...more
The description on the back of my copy describes Oscar of the title as a "sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love." Unfortunately Oscar never quite how to exist in the world. Blame it on the fuku, the curse that has followed his family for multiple generations. Or, blame it on his crazy mother. Or, blame it on his tendency to wallow in self-pity and his inability to get out of his h
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I chose this book as I am trying to read all of the Fiction Pulitzer novels. Apparently, the pulitzer judges love linked short story novels as there are several linked short story collections that have won in the last ten years. Oscar Wao was just an okay book. Too much Dominican Republic politics for me.
Diaz definitely has a unique style and I appreciate it, makes for fast reading. I thought some parts tended to drag on, but overall enjoyed the book.
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