Junot Diaz – författare

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadOscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present.

As the recent success of Margaret Atwood''s novel-turned-television hit Handmaid''s Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,” says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. “It is a useful arena in which to begin to think about who we are becoming.”

Bringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell''s 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In “Don''t Press Charges, and I Won''t Sue,” award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren''t always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.

In the era of Trump, resurgent populism, and climate denial, this collection poses vital questions about politics and civic responsibility and subjectivity itself. If we have, as Díaz says, reached peak dystopia, then Global Dystopias might just be the handbook we need to survive it.

ContributorsCharlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Bernhard, Mark Bould, Thea Costantino, Tananarive Due, Henry Farrell, JR Fenn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Mike McClelland, Maureen McHugh, China Miéville, Jordy Rosenberg, Peter Ross, Sumudu Samarwickrama

Nu ger vi ut Junot Diaz nya novellsamling Det är så du förlorar henne tillsammans med hans debut, novellsamlingen Sjunk (1998), dessa två novellsamlingar har flera trådar som knyter dem samman.

De båda böckerna Det är så du förlorar henne och Sjunk innehåller noveller om unga människor från Dominikanska republiken, invandrare i New York, i New Jersey eller ännu kvar i sin fattiga, havsomflutna hemtrakt. Deras värld är stadd i förvandling, familjestrukturen faller sönder, vänskapsband knyts och löses upp och sexualiteten spränger fram; en våldsam värld som skildras inifrån, utan spår av sentimentalitet eller frosseri. I hans nyaste novellsamling står kärleken i fokus, den oförglömliga och omöjliga kärlekens kraft. Han blottar det mänskliga hjärtats eviga längtan och oundvikliga svaghet.

Junot Dias skildrar sina gestalters coola attityd och underliggande desperation med en stramhet som bryts av poetiska passager.