Лучшие книги Джуно Диаса

Очень заковыристо все в жизни Оскара, доброго, но прискорбно тучного романтика и фаната комиксов и фантастики из испано-язычного гетто в Нью-Джерси, мечтающего стать доминиканским Дж. Р. Р. Толкиеном, но прежде всего — найти любовь, хоть какую-нибудь. Но мечтам его так и остаться бы мечтами, если бы не фуку — древнее проклятье, преследующее семью Оскара на…

Junot Daz's first book. Drown established him as a major new writer with the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet (Newsweek) His first novel. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Was named №1 Fiction Book of the Year. By Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. establishing itself - with more than a million copies in print - as a modern classic In addition to the Pulitzer. Daz has won a host of major awards and prizes. Icluding the National Book Critic's Circle Award the PENMalamud Award the PENO Henry Prize. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Anisfield - Wolf Award. Now Daz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting. Impossible power of love - obsessive love illicit love fading love, mate...

Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Diaz's prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In 'Ysrael', two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in 'No Face', the mirror is flipped and the perspective belongs to the tormented. In 'Fiesta 1980', a spirited family gathering plays against the noiseless hum of a father's infidelities. In 'Boyfriend', a young man eavesdrops on the woman next door and colours in the life overheard with his own intense longing. There is an urgency and clarity to these beautifully crafted stories that renders them entirely of the moment. Diaz has veered off the well-travelled roads of contemporary fiction and captured a range of experience previously uncharted and now emphatically his own.

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.

So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: “Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.”

Опубликовано в журнале "The New Yorker":
1. 30 октября 2023 в веб-версии
2. 30 октября 2023 в подкасте "the Writer's Voice"
3. 6 ноября 2023 в печатной версии

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.

In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Diaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist, who sweeps you up in the poetic energy of his speech as he rehearses a broad repertoire of bad behaviour.

Originally the climactic tale in the chain-linked This is How You Lose Her, 'The Cheater's Guide to Love' is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience.

Junot Diaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con Los boys, una coleccion de diez relatos que transcurren entre los barrios de la Republica Dominicana y los suburbios de Nueva Jersey, donde "nuestra comunidad estaba separada de las demas comunidades por una autopista de seis carriles y el vertedero". Diaz evoca un mundo del que han desaparecido los padres, en el que las madres luchan por sus hijos con inflexible determinacion, y en el que la generacion mas joven hereda la crueldad, la ambivalencia y el humor de unas vidas determinadas por la pobreza y la incertidumbre.