--- product_id: 79082887 title: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)" price: "€ 34.37" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/79082887-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-pulitzer-prize-winner store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) **Price:** € 34.37 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - **How much does it cost?** € 34.37 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/79082887-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-pulitzer-prize-winner) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times , San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. Review: The Brief and Wondrous Book! - This is one of my go-to books for when I feel down and depressed (the other being The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay). I am enamoured with the plot and the narrative, the beauty of the prose and the language. The words just fly off the pen (or processor) and into the kind of the reader. There is love in the book, it is about love, and once we are done with it, we are bound to be in love. Review: Four Stars - good ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #207,559 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10,199 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 7,984 Reviews | ## Images ![The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812l2Ztj99L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Brief and Wondrous Book! *by S***E on 22 October 2017* This is one of my go-to books for when I feel down and depressed (the other being The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay). I am enamoured with the plot and the narrative, the beauty of the prose and the language. The words just fly off the pen (or processor) and into the kind of the reader. There is love in the book, it is about love, and once we are done with it, we are bound to be in love. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars *by A***S on 15 July 2016* good ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Faber Classics to the rescue! *by T***R on 19 October 2014* Faber classics has only few books in its kitty, yet they all are so nicely done. I also have their DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little, which is another classic. The cover may not be the best in market, though the printing and binding work is very good. 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