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 Drown - Junot Diaz
Newest Review: ... this is because Diaz draws heavily on his own experiences and memories and therefore incorporates (either knowingly or ... more  ... subconsciously) autobiographical elements from his life as he matured and acclimitised to his new home. Or perhaps it is a device used intentionally to indicate the extent to which the problems facing these particular characters - their fears, concerns, and battles - are pervasive within the whole, largely faceless, immigrant community.
Diaz's language is sparse and hard, cutting to the heart of the matter, and expressing the essence of most situations in relatively few words. This, of course, will not be to everyone's ta...more |
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Drown - Junot Diaz: Drowning is a triumph. (840 words)
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Having recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz is hot property in the literary world these days. Having started his writing career with short stories published in The New Yorker, Diaz is best known for his novel 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' (for which he won the Pulitzer), and this series of short stories, entitled Drown. Comprised of 10 pieces of short fiction spread across 208 pages, Drown is unified by a theme which runs through all the stories and their various characters; the experience of immigrants to America, the memories of the homeland, the hope and fear of moving to the land of such promise, the ... Read the complete review
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