- Fiction, Social life and customs, Ficción, Dominican Americans
Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of contemporary fictions most exhilarating new voices.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Junot Díaz
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Krüger, Frankfurt, מחברות לספרות, Faber and Faber
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780571190638
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Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,* and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
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