Santo Domingo · 2007 · citedThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Dominican half of a story that runs between New Jersey and the island. Díaz sets the family's fortunes against the long shadow of the Trujillo dictatorship: the walled Zona Colonial, the seafront Malecón, a quiet capital neighbourhood, the cane fields inland where the family curse turns violent, and Baní to the west, where the line begins. The map anchors on Santo Domingo; Oscar's Paterson sits outside it, to the north.
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