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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscars Wao

by Junot Diaz

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is the debut novel by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel draws heavily from his rough childhood in New Jersey and his homeland’s experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo. It received numerous positive reviews from critics and went on to win numerous prestigious awards in 2008, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The novel chronicles not just the “brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao,” an overweight Dominican kid growing up in New Jersey obsessed with science fiction/fantasy and women, but also the curse of the “fukú” that has plagued Oscar’s family for generations and the Caribbean since colonization and slavery. The middle sections of the novel center on the lives of Oscar’s mother Beli and his grandfather Abelard under the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship. A dizzying combination of footnotes, science fiction/fantasy references (Trujillo as Sauron is one of the most brilliant), and street Spanglish, the novel is also a meditation on story-telling, Dominican diasporic identity, masculinity, and the contours of authoritarian power.

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Junot Díaz visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” This event took place September 26, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google Series.

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