Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert 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, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from New Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo. Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open 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.
Pulitzer Prize winning novel
大多数人都无法打破苦闷而平凡的的命运,再挣扎仿佛也殊途同归,执着反而令宿命加快进程,于是他们称之为诅咒。 奥斯卡的妈妈绚烂过、抗争过,没有美国梦式的落幕,死里逃生倒是比滞留多米尼加被再一次加害致死要好点。 洛拉的劫后余生更加正常和美好一些,前男友视角的后青春...
评分It reminds me of Cisneros's A House on the Mango Street and Julia Alverez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their accents. Alverez also writes about Domnican American's lives, if I remember correctly. The multiple perspectives Diaz uses in narrating this a bit...
评分该书以倒叙、插叙的手法勾勒出一个多米尼加人的家族史。主人公奥斯卡•瓦奥身材臃肿、性情抑郁,在男女问题上总是受挫,眼看着要当一辈子处男了,却在回归故乡多米尼加后结识妓女伊本•皮门特尔,从而展开一段轰轰烈烈的悲壮爱情,最后死于伊本的警察男友手中。通过描绘奥...
评分brilliant, funny, witty, tragic, cosmo
评分brilliant, funny, witty, tragic, cosmo
评分brilliant, funny, witty, tragic, cosmo
评分brilliant, funny, witty, tragic, cosmo
评分brilliant, funny, witty, tragic, cosmo
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