Una cr?nica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos pa?ses, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordifl?n y solitario Oscar de Le?n en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada b?squeda del amor. Pero Oscar s?lo es la ?ltima v?ctima del fuk? --una maldici?n que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, conden?ndoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado. Con unos personajes inolvidables y una prosa vibrante e hipn?tica, esta novela confirma a Junot D?az como una de las mejores y m?s deslumbrantes voces de nuestra ?poca, y nos ofrece una sobrecogedora visi?n de la inagotable capacidad humana para perseverar y arriesgarlo todo por amor. ENGLISH Winner of: The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year 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 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 fuk?--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.