Books by Junot Diaz

Offers 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.

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. This title presents the lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging.

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of contemporary fiction's most exhilarating new voices.

I SÅDAN MISTER DU HENDE dissekerer Díaz kærlighed i alle dens former – besat kærlighed, forbudt kærlighed, forsvindende kærlighed, moderkærlighed. På en strand i Den Dominikanske Republik går et allerede døende forhold skævt. I vaskerummet under et hospital i New Jersey vasker en kvinde sin elskers tøj, mens hun tænker på hans kone. I Boston køber en mand sit kærlighedsbarn dets første baseball hat og handske. I hjertet af Díaz’ novellesamling finder vi den uforglemmelige Yonior, en ung stædig rad, hvis higen efter kærlighed kun modsvares af hans hensynsløshed – og af de usædvanlige kvinder han elsker og mister: kunstneren Alma, den aldrende Miss Lora, Magdalena, der mener alle dominikanske mænd er utro, og hans livs kærlighed, hvis hjertesorg i sidste ende bliver hans egen.