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Junot Díaz

    31 dicembre 1968

    Junot Díaz crea narrazioni profondamente radicate nelle sue esperienze, esplorando spesso temi di identità, immigrazione e collisione culturale. La sua prosa è rinomata per la sua energia cruda, il suo linguaggio vibrante e una toccante miscela di umorismo e malinconia. Díaz approfondisce le complessità delle relazioni umane e l'impatto degli eventi storici sulla vita individuale. Il suo lavoro è celebrato per aver dato voce a comunità emarginate e per aver offerto una lente provocatoria sull'esistenza contemporanea.

    Junot Díaz
    The Best American Short Stories 2016
    This Is How You Lose Her
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Das kurze wundersame Leben des Oscar Wao, englische Ausgabe
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    Drown
    Islandborn
    • Drown

      • 240pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      The narrative follows a family's epic journey through the New World, showcasing their struggles, resilience, and the complexities of identity. With a blend of rich storytelling and cultural insights, the author weaves together themes of migration, belonging, and the impact of history on personal lives. This spellbinding saga captures the essence of familial bonds and the quest for a better life amidst challenges and change.

      Drown
    • 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 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’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read 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.

      The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    • The highly anticipated new work from Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, about the haunting, impossible power of love...

      This Is How You Lose Her
    • The Best American Short Stories 2016

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      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.

      The Best American Short Stories 2016
    • The best American short stories

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      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.

      The best American short stories
    • Love Is a Four-Letter Word

      True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts

      • 297pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret. Fearlessly revealing their shattered hearts and crushed egos; their indiscretions and indignities; their delusions, desperation, and disappointments, these talented writers capture the dark side of love in prose ranging from comic to poetic, poignant to cringe-inducing. Also featuring three cartoon/ graphic essays as a sixteen-page color insert, this anthology is perfect for anyone who's ever loved and lost.

      Love Is a Four-Letter Word
    • Die Gedichte und Gebete Dietrich Bonhoeffers§§Dieser Band enthält Gebete und Gedichte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer, geschrieben in den fast zwei Jahren, die er in den Gefängnissen Hitlers zubringen musste.§§

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