![]() ![]() ![]() Yunior tells the story of Oscar's life by tracing Oscar's story through his sister Lola, his mother Hypatá Belicia Cabral (or Beli for short), and his grandfather Abelard Cabral's own tragic tales.īetween all of the geek references, untranslated Spanish, slang, and footnotes, you might get lost in the text and believe that Díaz assumes too much from the reader, or that he is aiming to disorient the reader. The story is told through his former roommate at Rutgers, Yunior, who comes off as a bit dickish when he is first introduced into the story, but grows into a better person by the time he is writing the novel. ![]() The story revolves around the character Oscar de León, a consummate scifi and fantasy geek with horrendous luck with women who wants to be the Dominican J. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Díaz. ![]() Fuká americanus, or more colloquially, fuká- generally a curse or a doom of some kind specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. ![]()
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