Junot Díaz
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
On a beach in Santo Domingo, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball...
2) Lola
Author
Publisher
Dial Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
When she has to draw a picture of where she immigrated from, Lola asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La obra triunfal que marcó el arranque literario de Junot Díaz puede ahora disfrutarse en una edición en español que conserva en su integridad la fuerza desabrida y la delicadeza del texto original.Los niños y jóvenes que pueblan las páginas de Negocios gravitan sin sosiego por territorios marginales, a mitad de camino entre la inocencia y la experiencia, entre la curiosidad infantil y la crueldad más descarnada.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hector Santinio is the youngest son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life's realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family's adoptive land. When Mercedes takes Hector and his brother to visit Cuba, to better know her culture,...
Author
Series
Da shi ming zuo fang volume 163
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文
Author
Publisher
Maḥbarot le-sifrut
Pub. Date
2009
Language
עברית
Description
Publisher description: 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 rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison,...
8) Negocios
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
Español
Description
Junot Díaz began his literary career with this collection of short stories evoking the immigrant experience of an adolescent. His prose draws us into the teenage narrator's world, a mix of humor, desolation and tenderness found in a life of poverty and uncertainty.
Desde que Díaz empezó a publicar historias cortas, en publicaciones tan prestigiosas como The New Yorker, ha sido señalado como un gran talento nuevo, y su debut con historias cortas,...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
Series
Forum volume 15
Publisher
Boston Review
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their core is a brutal neoliberal ideology that combines structural racism with a relentless assault on social welfare. Its results are the failing economic and public health systems we confront today--those that benefit the few and put the most vulnerable in...