Junot Díaz

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 pobre nerd negro y jodido del gueto llamado Oscar Wao, el tipo de nerd del gueto que habria sido yo si no me hubieran "descubierto" las chicas el primer año de high 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 chico nerd 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 los nerds de color ni por sus intereses.Junot DiazReseñas:Innovadora, divertida y arriesgada, constituye una valiosa aportacion a las letras americanas.Eduardo Lago, Revista de libros Una 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

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 pobre nerd negro y jodido del gueto llamado Oscar Wao, el tipo de nerd del gueto que habria sido yo si no me hubieran "descubierto" las chicas el primer año de high 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 chico nerd 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 los nerds de color ni por sus intereses.Junot DiazReseñas:Innovadora, divertida y arriesgada, constituye una valiosa aportacion a las letras americanas.Eduardo Lago, Revista de libros Una 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

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.

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".

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.

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

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.

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 fiction's most exhilarating new voices.

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.

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.