Junot Díaz

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams 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—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American 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—and risk it all—in the name of love.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness—and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”

With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devastating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In Drown, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So 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.”

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 D�az 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 Cheater's Guide to Love' is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

Apocalyptic catastrophes, whether in Haiti or Japan, raze cities, drown coastlines, and—if you are willing to read the ruins—reveal the human sources of "natural" disaster.

Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, considerado uno de los jóvenes talentos de la narrativa estadounidense, hizo su entrada en el mundo literario en 1996 con una colección de diez relatos publicada en España como Los boys . En ellos, el que más tarde sería Premio Pulitzer de Novela, evoca un mundo de chicos sin padres, sostenidos hasta la extenuación por sus madres, que sobreviven a la pobreza y la incertidumbre con grandes dosis de crueldad y humor. Fiesta, 1980 , es uno de esos relatos.

A satirical short story by Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and others.

Estos son los cuentos que forjaron el éxito de Junot Díaz (Pulitzer 2008, National Book Critics Circle Award). Publicados por The New Yorker, en ellos se narran historias de tígueres, cocoa panyols, niggers, cubanos y Nueva York, A través del mestizaje lingüístico, Junot Díaz pretende plasmar la heterogénea y compleja realidad de los Estados Unidos.

Ganador del premio Pulitzer, Junot Díaz habla de la pasión, y la sutil distancia emocional que se crea entre dos amantes antes de que todo acabe.Verónica es Flaca, una blanquita de Nueva Jersey que baila bachata y habla español. Hace dos años que tiene una relación con Yunior, pero la cosa no va bien. Ya sabes, a veces las relaciones se encallan en ese resquicio que queda entre no querer dejarlo y no querer que te hagan daño.«Flaca» está incluido en la colección de relatos Así es como la pierdes.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection No se han visto en una semana. Desde que le arañó el brazo. Casi han desaparecido las marcas, y ni se acuerdan de que discutían. Pero esta noche, Aurora ha regresado. Del ganador del premio Pulitzer por La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao, un relato sobre la vida en los territorios marginales de Nueva Jersey y una obsesión que nunca termina. “Aurora” es una selección de la obra triunfal que marcó el arranque literario de Junot Díaz y lo posicionó como una de las voces más provocativas de la ficción norte americana. An eBook short.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”

PALABRAS: Dispatches from THE FESTIVAL DE LA PALABRA features short stories by authors, including Junot Diaz, Aurora Arias, and Mayra Santos Febres, from the Caribbean, Central and Latin America, Spain and Catalonia. Many of the stories in this collection are translated into English for the first time. Edited by Yamile Silva and Hank Willenbrink, this collection of new short fiction displays aesthetically diverse and remarkable voices from the Americas and Iberia.

This story describes the narrator's alienation from a friend visiting from college. He retraces the final summer they spent together and the sexual experiences they had that the narrator is confused by._______Drown is the semi-autobiographical, debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Díaz that address the trials of Dominican immigrants as they attempt to find some semblance of the American Dream after immigrating to America. The stories are set in the context of 1980s America, and are narrated by an adult who is looking back at his childhood.

Eñe completa el número editado hace un año, dedicado a los nuevos escritores de América Latina, con éste que recoge a los escritores más destacados de la actualidad en Norteamérica.Los ocho elegidos han sido Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, Reginald Gibbons, Sana Krasikov, Yiyun Li, Carolyn Parkhurst y Jeffrey Yang. Muchos de ellos procedentes de países diferentes pero con un punto en común, el idioma, lo cual pone de manifiesto que la patria de un autor no es el país en el que nace, sino la lengua en la que escribe.

Eine Familie zwischen den Welten und zwischen den Junot Díaz erzählt von dem liebenswürdigen Nerd Oscar und seiner toughen Schwester Lola. Beide sind in New Jersey groß geworden, aber ihre Wurzeln liegen in der Karibik. Und dorthin verschlägt es sie immer wieder, wenn das Leben das mühsam zusammengekratzte Glück gerade wieder einmal wegwischt. Hier finden sie im Haus der Großtante Zuflucht, genauso wie ihre Mutter vor vielen Jahren, von deren düsterer Vergangenheit sie allerdings nichts ahnen. Dabei wirkt sie wie ein Fluch. In einem letzten, verzweifelten Akt riskiert Oscar eines Tages alles für sein Glück. Den Fluch zu bannen wird sein letztes Abenteuer. Junot Díaz, einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Autoren der Gegenwart, gelingt mit "Das kurze wundersame Leben des Oscar Wao" eine elektrisierende Saga über eine Latino-Familie, die zwar in New Jersey angekommen ist, aber den Fluch der Karibik noch nicht hinter sich gelassen hat. Ein großer Roman über die Gesichter und die Stimmen Amerikas, ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2008.

Barcelona. 19 cm. il. 190 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Colección 'Contemporanea'. Junot Díaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con esta colección de diez relatos que se desplazan de los barrios de la República Dominicana a los suburbios de Nueva Jersey. Díaz, que según. Publicado también como texto impreso. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España . Cuentos. Lago, Eduardo. traductor. Díaz, Junot 1968-. Traducción de Eduardo Lago. Traducción Drown. Contemporánea (Barcelona) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 9788490320143

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Stories Fiesta, 1980 (Junot Diaz); Christmas (The Job (Phillip DePoy); Peddling Bub (Janice Daugharty); Straight in Your Face (Rand Richards Cooper); Wallet (Allen Woodman); Back Home Again (Paul Griner); Little Beauty's Wedding (Chang Hwang); My Big Red Heart (Emily Carter); Cuckle Me (Hester Kaplan); Little Red Baseball Cap (Ramon Garcia); Minutes to the Last Trumper (Drury Pifer); Will You Always Love Me? (Joyce Carol Oates);