The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The Nationwide E-book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf E-book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Journal #1 Fiction E-book of the 12 months

Certainly one of The New York Occasions’s 100 Finest Books of the twenty first Century

Top-of-the-line books of 2007 in keeping with: The New York Occasions, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Journal, Leisure Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Occasions, The Washington Put up, Individuals, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore Metropolis Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and plenty of extra…

Nominated as considered one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Nice American Learn and named considered one of The Atlantic’s Nice American Novels of the Previous 100 Years

Oscar is a candy however disastrously obese ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey residence he shares along with his previous world mom and rebellious sister—goals of turning into the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, discovering love. However Oscar could by no means get what he needs. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s household for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American historical past, The Transient Wondrous Lifetime of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing imaginative and prescient of the modern American expertise and explores the limitless human capability to persevere—and threat all of it—within the identify of affection.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 2, 2008
Version ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 339 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594483299
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594483295
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.09 x 1.05 x 7.91 inches
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1010L
Finest Sellers Rank: #13,486 in Books (See High 100 in Books) #18 in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction #135 in Up to date Literature & Fiction #664 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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