Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2008 - is an astounding debut novel from one of today's most original and electrifying literary voices.
Sweet but disastrously overweight Oscar dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien, but his uproarious family get in the way. Winner of the National Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and selected by the "New York Times" as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. 'Celebratory and heartbreaking... and filled with something many novels lack: an enormous amount of love, and heart' "Time Out"
