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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Comic books and colonialism, political mythologies and unreliable narrators, Junot Diaz's code-switching, Spanglish inflected first novel puts the Dominican diaspora front and center.

Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year


One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City P...

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