The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz · 2007
Literary Fiction · ranked #117 in category
Oscar is an overweight Dominican-American geek who wants to find love and write fantasy novels; his narrator Yunior tells the story of Oscar's doomed family across three generations and between the Dominican Republic and New Jersey, weaving together science fiction, Dominican history and the violence of the Trujillo dictatorship. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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