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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I've read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf--you won't be disappointed. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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*Starred Review* Díaz's gutsy short story collection Drown (1996) made the young Dominican American a literary star. Readers who have had to wait a decade for his first novel are now spectacularly rewarded. Paralleling his own experiences growing up in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey, he has choreographed a family saga at once sanguinary and sexy that confronts the horrific brutality at loose during the reign of the dictator Trujillo. Díaz's besieged characters look to the supernatural for explanations and hope, from fukú, the curse unleashed when Europeans arrived on Hispaniola, to the forces dramatized in the works of science fiction and fantasy so beloved by the chubby ghetto nerd Oscar Wao, the brilliantly realized boy of conscience at the center of this whirlwind tale. Writing in a combustible mix of slang and lyricism, Díaz loops back and forth in time and place, generating sly and lascivious humor in counterpoint to tyranny and sorrow. And his characters—Oscar, the hopeless romantic; Lola, his no-nonsense sister; their heartbroken mother; and the irresistible homeboy narrator—cling to life with the magical strength of superheroes, yet how vibrantly human they are. Propelled by compassion, Díaz's novel is intrepid and radiant. Seaman, Donna
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A very entertaining story about Oscar and his struggle to find love, about his sister and her rebellion, and about their mother as she grew up in Santa Domingo.
But the action is not what separates this book from others, but rather the playful language, full of dominican words, which makes you believe in the characters and their struggles.
A very good read, even though the reality of the characters is very hard at times, you cannot help smiling and caring about them, and altogether this book leaves you with a varm and positive feeling.
But the action is not what separates this book from others, but rather the playful language, full of dominican words, which makes you believe in the characters and their struggles.
A very good read, even though the reality of the characters is very hard at times, you cannot help smiling and caring about them, and altogether this book leaves you with a varm and positive feeling.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a family saga about identity, love, loss, oppression, hexes, sexuality, and fate. Don't give up during the first 50 pages where Oscar, the fat science-fiction and fantasy aficionado Dominican-American in the ghetto, is introduced . . . it's the least interesting part of the book.
From there, you will be transported into the past and future lives of Oscar's sister, mother, aunts, grandparents, and college roommate. Those lives are, in part, shared to present the history of the evil, repressive regime of Trujillo and its heirs in the Dominican Republic. The stories shared in this book rival anything you've read about the disappeared ones in Argentina.
Any book with such a sad point needs a little levity to release the reader's emotions. Junot Diaz accomplishes that result by having Oscar be the most unRomeo-like Romeo you can imagine.
Beneath the story line, the book asks a classic question: How much should we suffer for love?
Oscar is in many ways a modern Don Quixote who is troubled by having sexual desires as well as platonic ones. The humor is more subdued, but the parallels are striking.
If all you know about the Dominican Republic is that great baseball players come from there, you'll be pleased with this story. It's sweet and sad at the same time.
If you don't know Spanish, keep a dictionary handy. You won't quite know what some of the references are otherwise.
From there, you will be transported into the past and future lives of Oscar's sister, mother, aunts, grandparents, and college roommate. Those lives are, in part, shared to present the history of the evil, repressive regime of Trujillo and its heirs in the Dominican Republic. The stories shared in this book rival anything you've read about the disappeared ones in Argentina.
Any book with such a sad point needs a little levity to release the reader's emotions. Junot Diaz accomplishes that result by having Oscar be the most unRomeo-like Romeo you can imagine.
Beneath the story line, the book asks a classic question: How much should we suffer for love?
Oscar is in many ways a modern Don Quixote who is troubled by having sexual desires as well as platonic ones. The humor is more subdued, but the parallels are striking.
If all you know about the Dominican Republic is that great baseball players come from there, you'll be pleased with this story. It's sweet and sad at the same time.
If you don't know Spanish, keep a dictionary handy. You won't quite know what some of the references are otherwise.
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Sobald man sich mit der doch eher gossenhaften Sprache abgefunden hat, wird das Buch sehr spannend, witzig, vielseitig und interessant. Die Geschichte des Oscar de Leon aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln erzählt, ist auch die Geschichte der Dominikanischen Republik, die wir ja nur als Ferienziel kennen, deren geschichtlicher Hintergrund uns aber nur mässig bekannt ist. Spanischkenntnisse sind hier sicher von Vorteil, denn es wird sehr viel spanisch gesprochen in dieser englischen Originalausgabe. Dennoch habe ich das Buch mit grosser Begeisterung gelesen. Kaufempfehlung.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I bought the book because of the good readers' reviews. I read the book to the end because I did not want to give up the hope it might... Lesen Sie weiter...
I bought the book because of the good readers' reviews. I read the book to the end because I did not want to give up the hope it might... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 19 Monaten von Aurore veröffentlicht
I hadn't expected it this much from Junot Díaz
I had read two short stories by Junot Díaz before reading this novel, one of which actually turned out to be a chapter here, but this certainly did not prepare me for "The... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2009 von Ingbert Edenhofer
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