The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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main characters
Oscar Wao
Rip's impressions
In the opening pages I think of Salman Rushdie; in the middle Gunter Grass (and others); at the end James Joyce.
first line
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that is was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that is was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
He wrote: So this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!
awards
Pulitzer
literary tidbits
What makes this especially unique for me is the novelty of including footnotes , and a lot of Spanish speech and Dominican colloquialisms.
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