Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The AnisfieldWolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
ATimeMagazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year 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 Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly,New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America&rsquos bestloved novels by PBS&rsquos The Great American Read
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who&mdashfrom the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister&mdashdreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú&mdasha curse that has haunted Oscar&rsquos family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating DominicanAmerican history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere&mdashand risk it all&mdashin the name of love.
