This Is How You Lose Her

Diaz, Junot

| 2012

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz s first book, "Drown," established him as a major new writer with the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet ("Newsweek"). His first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year by "Time" magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list, establishing itself with more than a million copies in print as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer, Diaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award. Now Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On...

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Angela Alvarez

2014-03-10

Betyg

Det här är ingen ordinär novellsamling, det här som att krascha in i en dominikansk regnbåge och komma ut på andras sidan dränkt i Sancocho och sofrito. Junot är ett novellgenius.

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Mary G

2013-01-14

Betyg

Junot Diaz fantastiska språk är den här bokens främsta styrka. Boken är dock lite rörig i sitt upplägg, vilket gör att betyget blir en fyra istället för en femma.