Author: Junot Díaz
Translator: Sang-mee Kwon
Publisher: Munhakdongne
Hardcover | 292 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
Diaz's first collection of ten stories, some having appeared in the New
Yorker and Story, is certain to draw attention for its gritty view of
life in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and rough neighborhoods of
urban New Jersey. Most of the stories are linked by their narrator, who
spent his first nine years in the D.R., until his father in the States
brought the entire family to South Jersey, where he continued to display
the survivalist machismo he developed during years of poverty, scamming,
and struggle. In the Caribbean pieces, DĦaz offers a boy's-eye view of a
hardscrabble life. In "Ysrael," the narrator and his brother, sent to
the countryside during the summer, plot to unmask a local oddity, a boy
whose face was eaten off by a pig in his youth. Much later in the
volume, "No Face" reappears, surviving the taunts of the locals as he
waits for his trip to America, where surgeons will work on his face. "Arguantando"
documents life in the barrio, where the narrator, his brother, and his
mother eke out an existence while hearing nothing from the father. "Negocios"
explains why: Robbed of his savings in the US, the father schemes to
marry a citizen in order to become one himself, all the time thinking of
his family back home. He is hardly a saint, and, reunited in New Jersey,
the family is dominated by his violent temper. "Fiesta, 1980" recalls
the narrator's bouts of car sickness, for which his father shows no
sympathy. In the remaining tales, a teenaged Dominican drug dealer in
New Jersey dreams of a normal life with his crackhead girlfriend
("Aurora"); a high-school dealer is disturbed by his best friend's
homosexuality ("Drown"); and "How to Date . . ." is a fractured handbook
on the subtleties of interracial dating. DĦaz's spare style and
narrative poise make for some disturbing fiction, full of casual
violence and indifferent morality. A debut calculated to raise some
eyebrows.
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