The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Junot Díaz that blends magical realism, Dominican history, and geek culture to tell the tragicomic story of an overweight sci-fi-obsessed Dominican American named Oscar.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao canonical | 3 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Junot Díaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| containsElement |
Spanglish
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intertextual references ⓘ magical realism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
bildungsroman
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historical fiction ⓘ immigrant literature ⓘ magical realism ⓘ novel ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-1-59448-329-5 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latino literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Beli Cabral
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Lola de León NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar de León NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
footnotes
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nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| narrator | Yunior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pages | approximately 335 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher | Riverhead Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Dominican Republic
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New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Santo Domingo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Dominican diaspora
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Trujillo dictatorship ⓘ dictatorship ⓘ family curse ⓘ geek culture ⓘ identity ⓘ love ⓘ migration ⓘ science fiction fandom ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
Trujillo era
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late 20th century ⓘ post-Trujillo Dominican Republic ⓘ |
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