Junot Díaz (9 kníh)
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Junot Díaz A v tu chvíli je po lásce CZSoubor volně zachycuje životní cesty Juniora, který přijíždí jako chlapec s matkou a bratrem za otcem do USA, přes jeho první citová a tělesná vzplanutí, pověstné sukničkaření až po nevěru, která mu zásadně změní život – přijde o snoubenku a není schopen se z toho ani po letech vybabrat. Může za to jízlivý, téměř nepřítomný otec, jehož kratičké okamžiky přítomnosti v chlapcově životě mají spíš ničivý účinek? Nebo…
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Junot Díaz Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ENBrand New Book. 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 Díaz immerses us in the…
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Junot Díaz Drown ENJunot Díaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Díaz's prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In 'Ysrael', two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in 'No Face', the mirror is flipped and the…
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Junot Díaz IslandbornFrom New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. ..
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Junot Díaz Krátký, leč divuplný život Oskara Wajda CZJunot Díaz, americký autor původem z Dominikánské republiky, vyrůstající v New Jersey a nyní žijící v New Yorku, si získal nadšené zástupy čtenářů a posléze i uznání v podobě Pulitzerovy ceny v r. 2008 právě tímto románem. Hlavní postava Oskar (narážka na Oscara Wilda) je milý, ale značně obtloustlý nýmand, který v New Jersey sní o tom, že se stane dominikánským Tolkienem a že díky tomu najde konečně lásku. Možná se…
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Junot Díaz The Best American Short Stories 2016 ENThe Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.
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Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ENThings 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. With dazzling energy and insight, Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The…
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Junot Díaz This Is How You Lose Her ENJunot Díaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet. In prose that is endlessly energetic and inventive, tender and funny, it lays bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of the human…
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