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La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Junot Diaz
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 43665
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0679776699
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679776697
ASIN: 0679776699
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Una cronica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos paises, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordiflon y solitario Oscar de Leon en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada busqueda del amor. Pero Oscar solo es la ultima victima del fuku —una maldicion que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condenandoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado. Con unos personajes inolvidables y una prosa vibrante e hipnotica, esta novela confirma a Junot Diaz como una de las mejores y mas deslumbrantes voces de nuestra epoca, y nos ofrece una sobrecogedora vision de la inagotable capacidad humana para perseverar y arriesgarlo todo por amor.
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 Excelente Book December 22, 2008
I read this book in both languages, is excelent, it recommend, portrays very well what is the Latino community, especially the Dominican Republic in the U.S. I recommend the version in English, enjoyed best the form of a peculiar write of Junot Diaz.
 A big engine with little fuel to help it run December 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The author attempts to take the daily mundane life of Dominicans living during the Era of Trujillo and transform it to wonderful story. The dominican jerga (dominican slang) used in this book, which dates back to early 90's, will not be as funny to those non-spanish speaking even though the footnotes help a bit, but by the time you're done reading them you won't remember what it was making reference to. The writing style and the usage of spanglish definitely offers something new when reading this novel, but unfortunately it fails to achieve a believeable or even so, an original story (obviously a bit inspired on Vargas LLosa's La Fiesta del Chivo). I think it's time we move away from this period of history and start writing books based on other important characters in Dominican history. It truly fails to deliver at the beginning, the middle and near the end of the book, and at times it feels like the stories are just dragging on. In an unsuccessful attempt to convey a comedic novel it turns to a bitter sad story.
Divertida. November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
En una palabra, esta novela es: Divertida. Narra, de forma simpatica y facil de leer, la historia de una familia Dominicana bajo una maldicion que trasciende tres generaciones.
La narrativa esta salpicada con spanglish y cultura pop lo que le da una voz joven que lamentablemente se cruza dentro de personajes sobrios a quienes un tono coloquial les daria fidelidad.
Entre sus relatos logra abrir una ventana a la cultura Dominicana: Aquella de la Isla, tanto urbana como rural, junto con aquella de quienes viven en Nueva York. Los contrastes se hacen particularmente interesantes cuando los Americanos viajan a la RD.
Asimismo, el libro emplea a sus personajes para reflejarlos distintos estratos socio economicos de un pais en desarrollo. Haciendo enfasis en aquellos anos en que La Republica Dominicana estuvo bajo la dictadura de Trujillo.
Quizas hubiese disfrutado mas de la novela si el narrador fuese mas creible como personaje. Un joven gigolo dominicano que levanta pesas no me cuadra tanto con sus conocimientos de ciencia ficcion y una serie de materias de literatura universitarias que lo unen a Oscar...Con solo ser un ex-novio de la hermana bastaba.
En general es: Divertida.
A dominican portrait October 8, 2008
An entertaining and somehow instructive story of a standard dominican family with their dominican way of living and understanding life.
Straight forward, funny and at some point sad. Nice, modern literature for people who like to discover a different kind of writing.
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