Junot Díaz Knihy

Oscar je milý, plachý a trochu grambľavý mladík s nadváhou a láskou k fantastike, ktorý žije v New Jersey so staromódnou matkou a rebelujúcou sestrou, potajme sníva o tom, že sa stane dominikánskym Tolkienom a že vďaka tomu konečne nájde lásku.Nie je to však v jeho rukách, pretože jeho rodinu už po niekoľko generácií prenasleduje prastará kliatba fukú, ktorá rodinu sužuje rôznymi pohromami, nehodami, tragickými udalosťami a hlavne nešťastnými láskami. Oscar túži po prvom bozku, no zdá sa, že je ďalšou obeťou rodinného prekliatia. Rozhodne sa preto skoncovať s fukú, pretože v mene lásky treba riskovať naozaj všetko.Román Krátky neobyčajný život Oscara Waa je trpkoúsmevný multigeneračný príbeh dominikánskych prisťahovalcov na pozadí diktátorského režimu, ktorí sa v Amerike snažia zbaviť rodinnej kliatby, no rovnako sa dá povedať, že ide o tragickú a nesentimentálnu milostnú epizódu (lebo, kámo, fukú vždy zvíťazí), lekcie z dejín Dominikánskej republiky aj španielskeho pouličného slangu.Táto unikátna a sarkastická zmes histórie, fikcie a početných popkultúrnych odkazov vyvolala okamžite po vydaní obrovský rozruch na akademickej aj čitateľskej scéne a získala prakticky všetky významné literárne ocenenia, vrátane Pulitzerovej ceny za literatúru v roku 2008. Strhujúci a drsný, ale aj dojemný príbeh osamelého Oscara a jeho rodiny dodnes patrí k tomu najlepšiemu, čo vzniklo v hispánskej literatúre.

This is a collection of linked narratives about love: passionate love, illicit love, fading love and maternal love.

A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination

This stunningly illustrated slipcase edition of Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her" features full-bleed line drawings by Jaime Hernandez. A major bestseller and National Book Award finalist, this edition captures the love-haunted spirit of the stories, making it a must-have for fans and collectors alike.

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.

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.

As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In Don' t Press Charges, and I Won' t Sue, award- winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren' t always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while 25 thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology of essays and stories is the literary world's response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. With contributions from some of the most popular contemporary writers of today.

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.