Trujilo meets Tolkien on Junot Diaz’s long-awaited first novel

Posted on: September 12th, 2007
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“Junot Díz’s 1996 literary debut, “Drown,” turned him into the “it” writer of the New York literary scene ”” Latino or not.

But the short-story collection that made the name of the Dominican-American writer came out over a decade ago, an eternity in the dog years of publishing. How could he possibly follow it up?

His long-awaited debut novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” (Riverhead, $24.95) is an ambitious family saga paved with political violence, historic curses, comic books and unrequited love.”

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