Informationen zum Autor Junot Díaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. He is the recipient of a PEN/Malamud Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Santo Domingo, Díaz is a professor at MIT. Klappentext Sweet but disastrously overweight Oscar dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien, but his uproarious family get in the way. Winner of the National Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and selected by the "New York Times" as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. 'Celebratory and heartbreaking... and filled with something many novels lack: an enormous amount of love, and heart' "Time Out" Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2008 - is an astounding debut novel from one of today's most original and electrifying literary voices. Zusammenfassung A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

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Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2008 - is an astounding debut novel from one of today's most original and electrifying literary voices.

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Junot Díaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. He is the recipient of a PEN/Malamud Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Santo Domingo, Díaz is a professor at MIT.

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Sweet but disastrously overweight Oscar dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien, but his uproarious family get in the way. Winner of the National Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and selected by the "New York Times" as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. 'Celebratory and heartbreaking... and filled with something many novels lack: an enormous amount of love, and heart' "Time Out"

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.