About the book: 2014 / Everything is very tricky in the life of Oscar, a kind but sadly obese romantic and fan of comics and science fiction from a Spanish-speaking ghetto in New Jersey , who dreams of becoming a Dominican J. Tolkien, but above all - to find love, at least some kind. But his dreams would have remained dreams if it weren’t for fuku – a Dominican curse that has been haunting Oscar’s family for the third generation. Prison, torture, suffering, tragic accidents and unhappy love - this is their lot. Oscar's mother, the divine beauty Beli with an indomitable and violent disposition, experienced the full power of fuku. His sister tried to escape the inevitable, and also in vain. And Oscar, who has been dreaming in vain about his first kiss since adolescence, would have been just another victim of fuku, if one significant summer he had not decided to rid his family of a terrible curse and find love, even at the cost of his life. The novel by an American writer of Dominican origin was published in 2007 and that received the Pulitzer Prize the same year. Critics almost unanimously compare the novel, amazing in its complexity and versatility, to Marquez’s masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” A poetic mixture of Spanish and American English; magical elements; a new cultural layer, which for the first time penetrated literature at such a serious level - comics; history of the Dominican Republic; family saga; coming of age novel; a parable full of humor. In a word, in one novel by Junot Diaz there is so much that fits in that there is no room in the entire work of another good writer..