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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz

Posted at 4:45PM Wednesday 12 Mar 2008

Junot Díaz is the youngish, Dominican-born American writer whose first collection of stories dazzled critics on both sides of the Atlantic. This, his debut novel, promotes itself as 'an immigrant-family saga for people who don't read immigrant-family sagas'. It is that, and much more (although readers unaccustomed to being addressed as 'Nigger' may need a while to acclimatise).

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