Junot Díaz

#11 in the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThings have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, hes sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. 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. With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the familys uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph, that confirms Junot Diaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda ... You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Diaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist, who sweeps you up in the poetic energy of his speech as he rehearses a broad repertoire of bad behaviour.Originally the climactic tale in the chain-linked This is How You Lose Her, The Cheaters Guide to Love is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience.

De sua casa em Nova Jersey, Oscar Wao sonha em se tornar o Tolkien latino, mas as coisas nunca foram fáceis para o jovem dominicano. Vencedor do Pulitzer de 2008, A fantástica vida breve de Oscar Wao colocou Junot Diaz no panteo dos maiores escritores contemporaneos. A vida nunca foi facil para Oscar, um nerd de origem dominicana, simpatico e obeso, morador do gueto de Nova Jersey, que sonha em se tornar o Tolkien latino e, sobretudo, em encontrar um grande amor. A verdade e que e provavel que jamais realize seus desejos, graças ao fuku uma antiga maldiço que assola sua familia ha geraçes, condenando parentes a prises, torturas, acidentes tragicos e, acima de tudo, a paixes malfadadas. Oscar, que ainda anseia pelo primeiro beijo, e sua vitima mais recente ate o fatidico vero em que ele decide tornar seu ultimo.Com uma habilidade magnifica, Junot Diaz apresenta a vida tumultuada de nosso heroi, da irm fugitiva Lola e da bela e arisca me dos dois, Belicia, ao descrever a jornada epica da familia, de Santo Domingo a Nova Jersey: um retrato das lastimas da ditadura dominicana e da luta da familia de Oscar Wao pela sobrevivencia em momentos historicos crueis.Escrito com humor e ternura, A fantastica vida breve de Oscar Wao ironiza as promessas do sonho americano. Um triunfo literario que confirma Junot Diaz como um dos melhores e mais empolgantes escritores da atualidade. "To original e fantastico que somente pode ser descrito como um encontro entre Mario Vargas Llosa, Star Trek e Kanye West."The New York Times"Diaz encontra um equilibrio milagroso. Ele atravessa sua trama passional digna de uma historia em quadrinhos com um realismo honesto e complexo, e seu narrador fala em uma mistura estonteante de espanhol, ingles e girias."New York Magazine"Amplo e dolorosamente pessoal. O romance de Junot Diaz e um livro e tanto."Los Angeles Times

Junot Diazs new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet. In prose that is endlessly energetic and inventive, tender and funny, it lays bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of the human heart. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience and that love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.

Estos son los cuentos que forjaron el éxito de Junot Díaz (Pulitzer 2008). Publicados por The New Yorker, en ellos, se narran las historias de tres mujeres. Nilda, una chica que deambula por los recuerdos de adolescencia de Junior, el protagonista, y Magda, la novia con la que siempre habra volverlo a intentar. Historias de tigueres, cocoa panyols, niggers, cubanos, una Nueva York migrante, como Yasmin la protagonista del tercer relato.

Novela ganadora del Pulitzer 2008.La vida nunca ha sido fácil para Óscar Wao, un dominicano dulce, obeso y desastroso que vive con su madre y su hermana disfuncional en un gueto de Nueva Jersey.Óscar sueña con convertirse en un J. R. R. Tolkien dominicano y, por encima de todo, sueña con encontrar el amor de su vida. Pero puede que Oscar nunca alcance sus metas debido a una extraña maldicion que ha estado en su familia por generaciones, enviando a los Wao a prision, predisponiendolos a accidentes tragicos y, ante todo, al desamor.En la noche, cuando estaba echado en la cama pensando en la chica de la que estaba enamorado, una fresita cuya familia era de Cancun, tuve la vision de un pobrenerd negro y jodido del gueto llamado Oscar Wao, el tipo denerd del gueto que habria sido yo si no me hubieran "descubierto" las chicas el primer año dehigh school. Oscar no iba a ser el caribeño sexy por el que la industria del turismo vive y muere. Me di cuenta de que podia escribir acerca de este chiconerd que vive obsesionado por la historia y por las chicas, que solo es bueno para la fantasia y para la ciencia ficcion y que, sin embargo (tragica, comicamente), pertenece a una comunidad y a una cultura que propiamente no se enloquece por losnerds de color ni por sus intereses.Junot DiazReseñas:Innovadora, divertida y arriesgada, constituye una valiosa aportacion a las letras americanas.Eduardo Lago,Revista de librosUna obra imprescindible. Junot Diaz ha escrito una novela que le situa en la primera fila de la narrativa contemporanea.Michiko Kakutami,The New York TimesJunot Diaz posee un talento potente, fresco y autentico.Hanif Kureishi

El escritor dominicano Junot Díaz figura entre los ganadores del codiciado premio Pulitzer por The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, que describe la dura realidad de los emigrantes hispanoamericanos en los Estados Unidos.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao es una novela sumamente ambiciosa y, a pesar de ello, nunca falla en mantener al lector envuelto emocionalmente y lo hace mediante el humor, la satira y una mirada desapasionada a los rincones oscuros de la dominicanidad. Hay muchos temas que Diaz toca con sagacidad: el abuso sexual, la violencia de la sociedad dominicanidad y como es reproducida a traves de las generaciones y la vision de los hijos de los inmigrantes acerca de la isla.

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of contemporary fictions most exhilarating new voices.Theres a new excitement in Drown, the fierce, sharp-edged, painful stories of a young Dominican-American writer, Junot Diaz: a dazzling talented first book. Hermione Lee, Independent on Sunday, Books of the YearA voice so original and compelling as to reach far beyond his immediate environment. It has put Diaz at the forefront of American writing. GQHe has that rare gift of delineating a recognizable trademark world of his own with just a few deft strokes. GuardianWrings the heart with finely calibrated restraint. New York Times

A must-have collector's edition of Junot Diaz's bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime Hernandez A major "New York Times "bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, "This Is How You Lose Her "is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz's celebration of love in all its facets--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez--deemed "one of the twentieth century's most significant comic creators"--has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering.

From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. When Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember the Island - she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories - joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening - Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: 'just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.' Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us - to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

The literary Oscars featurestwenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories. "Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016" will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz.He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times") to the collection".