Negocios / Drown by Junot Daz

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Negocios / Drown by Junot Daz

El lector tiene en sus manos una colección de relatos que viene precedida de una enorme expectación. Su autor, seleccionado por Newsweek como uno de los diez nuevos rostros para el noventa y seis, nos transporta desde los pueblos y parajes polvorientos de su tierra natal, la República Dominicana, hasta los barrios industrials y el paisaje urbano de New Jersey, bajo un horizonte de chimeneas humeantes. La obra triunfal que marcó el arranque literario de Junot Díaz puede ahora disfrutarse en una edición en español que conserva en su integridad la fuerza desabrida y la delicadeza del texto original.

Los niños y jóvenes que pueblan las páginas de Negocios gravitan sin sosiego por territorios marginales, a mitad de camino entre la inocencia y la experiencia, entre la curiosidad infantil y la crueldad más descarnada. Criados en hogares abandonados por el padre, donde todo se sostiene gracias a la férrea abegación de la madre, estos adolescentes acarician sueños de independencia, asomándose con recelo a un mundo donde intuyen que no hay un lugar reservado para ellos. En estos diez relatos la prosa de Junot Díaz oscila con sabiduría entre el humor, la desolación y la ternura, desplegando en cada página un estilo palpitante de vida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family's journey through the New World.

 
A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator-- Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family's precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.

The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories have all published Junot Diaz's writing. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, his much anticipated debut novel, received rave reviews, with Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times describing it as a work that clearly confirms him as one of modern fiction's most distinctive and seductive new voices. Drown, his first story collection, was similarly hailed with unexpected acclaim when it was published eleven years before Oscar Wao; it became a national bestseller, won multiple accolades, and has now evolved into a landmark of contemporary writing. Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, is a professor of creative writing at MIT and lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13 9780525564522
ISBN 10 0525564527
Title Negocios / Drown
Author Junot Díaz
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Espanol
Year published 2018-05-01
Number of pages 192
Prizes Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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