Ready Reference Treatise: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By Raja Sharma

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz was first published in 2007. It proved to be a bestselling novel by this Dominican writer.

Junot Diaz was brought up in New Jersey. The novel is a work of fiction, but the author has set it in New Jersey. The story primarily explicitly describes the author’s own experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo in his ancestral homeland.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: May 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310653414

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Chapter One: Introduction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz was first published in 2007. It proved to be a bestselling novel by this Dominican writer.

Junot Diaz was brought up in New Jersey. The novel is a work of fiction, but the author has set it in New Jersey. The story primarily explicitly describes the author’s own experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo in his ancestral homeland.

Oscar De Leon is the central character of the novel. He happens to be an overweight Dominican boy who grows up in Peterson, New Jersey.

The boy is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels. He is also obsessed with falling in love. At the same time, the book details the curse that has plagued this Dominican boy’s family for several generations.

The novel has multiple narrators. There is noticeable amount of Spanglish and neologism. Several references to science fiction books, films, and fantasy are also there.

The overarching theme of the novel is the Fuku curse, but it also includes several elements of magical realism.

When the book was published for the first time, most of the reviews given by the critics were positive. Most of the critics praised the author’s writing style and the story that includes several generations.

The book won several highly prestigious awards in the year 2008. They included The National Book Critics Circle Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The story also details the lives of Oscar’s runaway sister, Lola, his mother, Hypatia Belicia Cabral, and his grandfather, Abelard.

The author has provided several footnotes and references to science fiction and comic book analogies. Spanish dialects are frequently used in the narrative. The novel is also a kind of meditation on the tradition on storytelling.

The other striking elements that the novel includes are the detailed exploration of the Dominican diaspora and identity, masculinity, and oppression.

The major part of the story is narrated by an omniscient narrator. Eventually, the narrator is revealed