A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination
Junot Díaz Libri
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.
Drown
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Diaz's prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In 'Ysrael', two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in 'No Face', the mirror is flipped and the perspective belongs to the tormented. In 'Fiesta 1980', a spirited family gathering plays against the noiseless hum of a father's infidelities. In 'Boyfriend', a young man eavesdrops on the woman next door and colours in the life overheard with his own intense longing. There is an urgency and clarity to these beautifully crafted stories that renders them entirely of the moment. Diaz has veered off the well-travelled roads of contemporary fiction and captured a range of experience previously uncharted and now emphatically his own.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ—the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss. A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao confirms Junot Diaz as one of the best and most exciting voices of our time.
Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but Fuku, the curse has haunted his family for generations, may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
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...
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
- 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.
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.§§
