The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Narrated by:
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Karen Olivo
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Written by:
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Junot Diaz
About this listen
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.
With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back.
Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph that confirms Junot Diaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.
©2007 Junot Diaz (P)2008 Recorded Books LLCWhat listeners say about The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-05-19
Perfect audiobook narration
LOVED the performance so much more than the book itself
Yes the tropes are annoying and the girl craze is crazy but the I get the nerdisms and geekery enthusiasm you know?
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Ankit Ojha
- 27-09-21
Woah! What a novel! What an audio performance!
After sampling dozens and dozens of titles on Audible, this is the first audiobook I completed, the first where the writing and the narration are equally mind blowing. Audible should record more titles with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo who I believe are one of the (very) best narrators I have ever listened to. It's a shame they have narrated just this one title on Audible.
And now about this trouble I had with the title (minor but pardonable spoilers ahead):
Some sections (part of Yunior's ongoing narration) in Chapter 16 (the last one in the audiobook) seem to have been replaced by a section (the one about Ybón's pictures from Europe) which I had already listened to in an earlier chapter. Audible should fix this ASAP. I was lucky to have a paperback so I could read the missing sections, still, I had some trouble trying to find my way through the audiobook and the paperback. This is a blunder, Audible, please look into it!
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