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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: M78272L
EAN: 9781594483295
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Beschreibung
Winner of:The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time. Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year. One of The New York Times. ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A Kirkus Reviews. Best Fiction Book of the Century. 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. and named one of The Atlantic. ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Junot Díaz
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 368