Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 21/02/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Focussing on the life of a young, overweight, Dominican nerd living in New Jersey, this is an astonishing vision of the endless human capacity to persevere and risk all in the name of love. For fans of D.B.C. Pierre and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Publisher's description:

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next JRR Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

ISBN: 9780571179558