Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." This event took place September 26, 2007.
Posted 70 days ago
donkeykonguk
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todd:
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Oscar Wao. It was, quite possibly, the best book i've ever read. It has a particular and hilarious mix of "modern decent literature", latino magical realism, sci fi themes, historial fiction, and modern urban experience. I hear that even non-spanish speakers have loved it, in spite of how much spanish is in the book. Also notable: i believe this book will be the definitve historical novel on the subject of trujillo, the infamous dictator of the dominican republic. and on that subject, the novel is devastating.
