"Asi es como la pierdes" es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traicion porque a veces traicionamos lo que mas queremos, y tambien es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos despues -los ruegos, las lagrimas, la sensacion de estar atravesado un campo d[...]

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse[...]

Offers a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet.[...]

Offers a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet.

Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a coll[...]

El lector tiene en sus manos una coleccion de relatos que viene precedida de una enorme expectacion. Su autor, seleccionado por "Newsweek" como uno de los diez nuevos rostros para el noventa y seis, nos transporta desde los pueblos y parajes polvorientos de su tierra natal, la Republica Dominicana, [...]

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic--and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream--by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying th[...]

Junot Diaz burst into the literary world with "Drown," a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ("Newsweek"). His eagerly awaited first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," arrived like a thunderclap, topping[...]

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebe[...]

In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth--a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner by[...]

Livet har aldri vært lett for Oscar, en søt, men katastrofalt overvektig ghettonerd, en New Jersey-romantiker som drømmer om å bli en dominikansk Tolkien og, mest av alt, drømmer om å finne kjærligheten. Men han vil kanskje aldri oppnå det han drømmer om, takket være fukú, forbannelsen so[...]

Dominikaanisesta tasavallasta New Yorkiin lapsena muuttanut Díaz on kirjallinen sensaatio, jonka esikoisteos Drown sai kriitikot ja lukijat haltioihinsa. Vahvasti omaelämäkerrallisessa novellikokoelmassaan kirjailija kuvaa siirtolaisuutta, rikollisuutta, lapsuuden traumoja, maagista Dominikaanist[...]