- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T); First Edition edition (Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1573220418
- ISBN-13: 978-1573220415
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 559,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The first book by Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Diaz's prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In 'Ysrael', two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in 'No Face', the mirror is flipped and the perspective belongs to the tormented. In 'Fiesta 1980', a spirited family gathering plays against the noiseless hum of a father's infidelities. In 'Boyfriend', a young man eavesdrops on the woman next door and colours in the life overheard with his own intense longing. There is an urgency and clarity to these beautifully crafted stories that renders them entirely of the moment. Diaz has veered off the well-travelled roads of contemporary fiction and captured a range of experience previously uncharted and now emphatically his own.
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Drown
I previously read Oscar Wao and bought this as I thought I'd enjoy it. I've only read the first 3 stories and it is really difficult to put the book down, Diaz really does know how... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Alex Pughe
Beautiful
This is simply beautiful writing. Stories about real characters, writing that takes you deep into their crazy lives until you feel as though you knew them. Also quite funny.
Published 4 months ago by Shunzi
A masterpiece
A masterpiece of literary fiction. Diaz writes with not just remarkable skill and detail but also an ability to give his stories a low-slung hip-hop rhythm that no other writer in... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Junkyard Dog
Drown
There is something very refreshing about this gritty tale. It is a crystal clear image of the life of the dispossessed and the struggles they face, little frames of humanity... Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by Book 1981
Not Drowing but very much Alive
First published in 1996, Junot Diaz's Drown is a collection of short stories. They are set in Santo Domingo and the typical US, African Caribbean diaspora of New York, New Jersey... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2009 by Herman Norford
The brilliance is in capturing the tensions...
These stories are all different but form a continuum, overlapping and coming from different angles and times. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2009 by stevieby
voted best year after year
This book has been on my reading list for a creative writing course I teach for several years now, along with Maya Angelou, Michael Frayn, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jenny Diski. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2008 by U. Sinha
Already a classic
DROWN by Junot Diaz spoke to me like no other work of fiction that I've read in many years. It was the first time where I saw myself in the characters and felt that I knew them... Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2006 by Avid Reader
Fresher than a Caribbean Breeze
This is one of the freshest, most original books I have read in a very long time. The voice in this collection of short stories is utterly authentic and original. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2001
Drown yourself in this book!!!
Junot Diaz is one of the best writers of short stories that I know of. Every on of these stories takes you in and makes you feel every emotion for the main characters. Read more
Published on 19 July 2001 by "mnpt"
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