La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao

November 1, 2009
Grades 10-1 Mature Spanish speakers, especially those from Latin America, will find Obejas exquisite rendition as powerful and moving as the much-awarded English original, published for adults. To assist readers, the translator aptly includes footnotes to explain colloquial expressions and references that may be new to Latin Americans, such as American TV series and comic books. She also clarifies neologisms and colloquial expressions. Set in the Dominican Republic at the time of dictator Trujillos horrific regime and in hardscrabble New Jersey neighborhoods, Oscars and Lolas painful stories mirror the struggles within Latino families and their communities.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)