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Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2007
Country: Dominican Republic
339 pages
This ambitious first novel treats multiple themes of bridging identities, including Dominican/American cultures, Spanish/English languages, fiction and nonfiction writing conventions, individuals and families, personal and cultural history, and Latin American Magical Realism and science fiction. The voice of Oscar is only one of several telling this story. The resultant pastiche is lively and engaging, playful and yet deeply serious. This was not an easy book to read with outside distractions, but I kept feeling as though I should be reading it on a bus with conversations all around me.
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