By any measure, Oscar Wao is novel of epic proportions.The global ambitions of this book can be off-putting, though. The book also alludes to dozens of imaginary places from alternate universes well loved by Oscar. Surprisingly, Díaz refers to locations from over thirty countries on six continents to craft his multi-generational immigrant narrative.
To give this personal drama more reach, the book also looks backward to chronicle the tragic events that forced the de León family to flee the Dominican Republic and the bloody Trujillo Regime. The book tells the story of how a Dominican-American teenager, Oscar de León, learns to cope with being more at home in science fiction and fantasy worlds than he is in his own skin.
Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), explores the porousness of many borders: national, linguistic, stylistic, and generic.
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