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La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Óscar Wao / the Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Óscar Wao / the Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao( )
Author: Díaz, Junot
ISBN:978-0-679-77669-7
Publication Date:Sep 2008
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage Espanol
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Hispanic & Latino / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.13 x 8 x 0.84 Inches
Book Weight:0.6 Pounds
Author Biography
Díaz, Junot (Author)
Junot Díaz 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.

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