The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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 JRR 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.PRIZES:Winner of John Sargent Snr First Novel Prize 2007.Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008.Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2008.Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.