2008-ųjų Pulitzerio premijos laureatas Junot Diaz yra vienas išskirtiniausių ir įdomiausių balsų šiuolaikinėje amerikiečių literatūroje. Jo proza – vulgari, drąsi ir poetiška, jo kalba – literatūrinės elegancijos ir gatvės žargono mišinys.„Štai taip tu ją prarandi“ – devynios tikrumu nuginkluojančios istorijos apie netobulą meilę. Jų centre – jaunas kietakaktis Junioras, kurio širdį autorius negailestingai sudaužo daugybę kartų, demonstruodamas, kaip stipriai meilė, romantiška, fizinė ar šeimos, gali paveikti net ir vyriškiausią charakterį. Junot Diaz sielvartą prilygina radiacijai – gali palaidoti ir bandyti pamiršti, tačiau ji niekada galutinai neišnyks.

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT… For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. From David Brin’s seminal “The Postman” to Hugh Howey’s “Deep Blood Kettle” and Tananarive Due’s prescient “Patient Zero,” the end of the world continues to thrill. This companion volume to the critically acclaimed WASTELANDS offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction, with works by: Ann Aguirre Megan Arkenberg Paolo Bacigalupi Christopher Barzak Lauren Beukes David Brin Orson Scott Card Junot Díaz Cory Doctorow Tananarive Due Toiya Kristen Finley Milo James...

Очень заковыристо все в жизни Оскара, доброго, но прискорбно тучного романтика и фаната комиксов и фантастики из испаноязычного гетто в Нью-Джерси, мечтающего стать доминиканским Дж. Толкином, но прежде всего – найти любовь, хоть какую-нибудь. Но мечтам его так и остаться бы мечтами, если бы не фуку́ – доминиканское проклятье, преследующее семью Оскара уже третье поколение. Тюрьма, пытки, страдания, трагические происшествия и несчастная любовь – таков их удел. Мать Оскара, божественная красавица Бели́ с неукротимым и буйным нравом, испытала на себе всю мощь фуку́. Его сестра попыталась сбежать от неизбежности, и тоже тщетно. И Оскар, с отрочества тщетно мечтающий о первом поцелуе, был бы...

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic-and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream-by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid for leaving culture and homeland behind." — San Francisco Chronicle.Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings — Santa Domingo, Dominican Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes. Places and voices new to our literature yet classically American: coming-of-age stories full...

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, 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 bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness-and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny,...

“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles...

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This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. 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 Fukú—the curse that has haunted the Oscar’s family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. Díaz immerses us in...