“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
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Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar, his runaway sister Lola, their beautiful mother Belicia, and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* is a literary triumph, that confirms Junot Díaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.
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Junot Diaz
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“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
“Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.”
“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only li...”