Junot Díaz

ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love....

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island....

Junot Díaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con esta colección de diez relatos que se desplazan de los barrios de la República Dominicana a los suburbios de Nueva Jersey....

Óscar sueña con convertirse en un J. R. R. Tolkien dominicano y, por encima de todo, sueña con encontrar el amor de su vida....

Eine Familie zwischen den Welten und zwischen den Zeiten: Junot Díaz erzählt von dem liebenswürdigen Nerd Oscar und seiner toughen Schwester Lola...

A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut–and most autobiographical–novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love....