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Junot Díaz
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 29 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1997–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Lola. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
Nimi esiintyy myös muodoissa: Junot Diaz
29 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1997–2026.
Del exitoso autor en ventas seg n el New York Times y ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Junot D az, nos llega su primer lbum ilustrado acerca de la magia de los recuerdos y el poder infinito de la imaginaci n, ahora en espa ol Todos los ni os en la escuela de Lola ven an de otra parte. Era una escuela de lugares lejanos. As que cuando la maestra de Lola pide a sus alumnos que hagan un dibujo del lugar del que emigraron sus familias, todos los ni os se entusiasman. Todos, menos Lola. Ella no recuerda la Isla: se fue cuando era apenas un beb . Pero con la ayuda de su familia y de sus amigos, todos ellos con sus recuerdos --felices, maravillosos, tristes, aterradores--, la imaginaci n de Lola la lleva en un extraordinario viaje de regreso a la Isla. Cuando finalmente se acerca al coraz n de la historia de su familia, Lola llega a entender el sentido de las palabras de su abuela: «Que no recuerdes un lugar, no significa que no sea parte de ti . Espl ndidamente ilustrado, y escrito en una bella prosa, Lola es un homenaje a la creatividad, a la diversidad y a la imaginaci n sin l mites, que nos permite conectar con nuestra familia, nuestro pasado y con nosotros mismos.
Heresy Press’s new anthology, Axe: Stories That Cut Deep, gathers dazzling short fiction from some of today’s most acclaimed voices, including National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners. Inspired by Kafka’s injunction that “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” these twelve stories strike at complacency with audacity and style. Joyce Carol Oates, Sherman Alexie, Chuck Palahniuk, Lionel Shriver, Andrew Doyle, Richard North Patterson, Jeffrey Ford, David Sedaris, and Alice Walker deliver tales of cruelty, compassion, delusion, and revelation—from gothic horror and biting satire to surreal fables and lyrical meditations. Bradford Morrow’s chilling inheritance scenario, Jonathan Santlofer’s seductive con game, James Morrow’s heretical tour-de-force, and Elizabeth Hand's wrenching portrait of a dying hedonist exemplify fiction that cuts deep and lingers. Across these pages, the familiar world cracks open to reveal what lies beneath: violence, longing, and the possibility of grace. In a spirited afterword, Junot Díaz urges us to read “hungrily, adventurously, and blasphemously”—the perfect benediction for a compilation that defies conventional artistic boundaries.
A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in 1940s New York in the debut--and most autobiographical--novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. New York City, 1944. Hector Santinio is the younger son of Cuban immigrants Alejo and Mercedes. The fraught family of four shares their small, modest apartment with extended relatives in raucous Spanish Harlem. There are parties, dancing, and dreamy, homesick storytelling about their idyllic island. But life's realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family's adoptive land. Mercedes decides to take Hector and his brother Horacio to visit relatives in Cuba to better know her culture. While there, the three-year-old Hector contracts a serious illness that leads to his terrifying year-long hospitalization and recovery back in the United States. Caught between his overly protective mother's fears for his health and his father's macho behavior and disappointments, the adolescent Hector struggles to understand his identity and place in the world. In the aftermath of his father's untimely passing, Hector staggers towards adulthood, haunted by notions of inadequacy and sadness and wrestles with the truth of his father as a deeply flawed but honorable man. This is a jewel-box of a tale whose treasure is the hope and yearning of immigrants in America. Includes a Reading Group Guide.
A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. When Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember the Island – she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories – joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening – Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: 'just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.' Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us – to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
Eve Hayes de Kalaf; Junot Díaz
ANTHEM PRESS
2023
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This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ochen zakovyristo vse v zhizni Oskara, dobrogo, no priskorbno tuchnogo romantika i fanata komiksov i fantastiki iz ispano-jazychnogo getto v Nju-Dzhersi, mechtajuschego stat dominikanskim Dzh. R. R. Tolkienom, no prezhde vsego - najti ljubov, khot kakuju-nibud. No mechtam ego tak i ostatsja by mechtami, esli by ne fuku - drevnee prokljate, presledujuschee semju Oskara na protjazhenii mnogikh pokolenij: tjurma, pytki i stradanija, tragicheskie proisshestvija i, samoe pechalnoe, neschastnaja ljubov - takov udel semi Oskara. Ego mat Beli - bozhestvennaja krasavitsa s neukrotimym i bujnym nravom, ispytala na sebe vsju silu semejnogo prokljatija. Ego sestra popytalas sbezhat ot neizbezhnosti. I Oskar, s otrochestva tschetno mechtajuschij o pervom potselue, byl by lish ocherednoj zhertvoj fuku - poka odnim znamenatelnym letom on ne reshil izbavit semju ot strashnogo prokljatja. S neverojatnoj energiej, literaturnym obajaniem i znaniem predmeta Dzhuno Dias pogruzhaet chitatelja v burnuju zhizn Oskara, ego svoenravnoj sestry Loly i ikh neistovoj materi Belisii, krasavitsy s korolevskoj statju, a takzhe v istoriju epicheskogo puteshestvija semi iz prekrasnogo, no pechalnogo Santo-Domingo v obyknovennyj amerikanskij gorodok Paterson i obratno. Iskrennosti i jumoru avtora trudno protivostojat. "Korotkaja fantasticheskaja Oskara Vau" zhivopisuet sovremennyj mir v neprivychnom, trevozhnom i zavorazhivajuschem rakurse, povestvuja ob izvechnoj gotovnosti cheloveka preterpet vse - i risknut vsem - vo imja ljubvi. Inache, kak podlinnym literaturnym triumfom etot roman nazvat nevozmozhno, i so vsej ochevidnostju, Dzhuno Dias - odin iz samykh neobychnykh, svoeobraznykh i pritjagatelnykh pisatelej nashikh dnej.
Potomstvennaja vedma, tselitelnitsa i avtor knigi "Magija. Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo dlja sovremennoj Vedmy" Dzhuletta Dias prizyvaet vsekh nas vosstanovit zhivitelnuju svjaz s prirodoj, predkami i svoim istinnym "ja" s pomoschju moguschestvennoj magii rastenij. Kazhdoe iz nikh - ot abre kamino i akatsii do jukki obladaet sobstvennoj individualnostju, mudrostju i magiej, kotorymi gotovo delitsja s nami, esli my tolko gotovy slushat. V etoj knige vas zhdet opisanie magicheskikh i lechebnykh svojstv 200 trav, tsvetov i derevev, ritualy i zelja s ikh ispolzovaniem, sposobstvujuschie izobiliju i vnutrennemu ravnovesiju, prinosjaschie udachu i zaschischajuschie ot zla. S etoj knigoj vy nauchites obschatsja s rastenijami: govorit s nimi tak, chtoby oni slyshali vas, i slyshat to, chto oni govorjat vam. Takzhe vy uznaete, kakie fazy Luny i vremena goda optimalny dlja magicheskoj raboty s rastenijami.
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
Eve Hayes de Kalaf; Junot Díaz
Anthem Press
2021
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This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda ... You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more. In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Díaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist, who sweeps you up in the poetic energy of his speech as he rehearses a broad repertoire of bad behaviour. Originally the climactic tale in the chain-linked This is How You Lose Her, 'The Cheater's Guide to Love' is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience. Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
El lector tiene en sus manos una colecci n de relatos que viene precedida de una enorme expectaci n. Su autor, seleccionado por Newsweek como uno de los diez nuevos rostros para el noventa y seis, nos transporta desde los pueblos y parajes polvorientos de su tierra natal, la Rep blica Dominicana, hasta los barrios industrials y el paisaje urbano de New Jersey, bajo un horizonte de chimeneas humeantes. La obra triunfal que marc el arranque literario de Junot D az puede ahora disfrutarse en una edici n en espa ol que conserva en su integridad la fuerza desabrida y la delicadeza del texto original. Los ni os y j venes que pueblan las p ginas de Negocios gravitan sin sosiego por territorios marginales, a mitad de camino entre la inocencia y la experiencia, entre la curiosidad infantil y la crueldad m s descarnada. Criados en hogares abandonados por el padre, donde todo se sostiene gracias a la f rrea abegaci n de la madre, estos adolescentes acarician sue os de independencia, asom ndose con recelo a un mundo donde intuyen que no hay un lugar reservado para ellos. En estos diez relatos la prosa de Junot D az oscila con sabidur a entre el humor, la desolaci n y la ternura, desplegando en cada p gina un estilo palpitante de vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the beloved and award-winning author Junot D az, a spellbinding saga of a family's journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot D az's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator-- Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family's precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made D az a literary sensation.
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot D az comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpr Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island--she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories--joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening--Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you." Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us--to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." --Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot D az. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.
Det har aldri vært enkelt å være Oscar, en ghettonerd som bor med sin dominikansk-amerikanske familie i New Jersey, er katastrofalt overvektig, blir håpløst forelsket i tide og utide og drømmer om å bli den neste Tolkien. Imens har pønkesøsteren hans, Lola, lyst til å rømme hjemmefra, og den bestemte moren deres, Beli, ser ikke ut til å ville slippe taket i noen av dem. Med en spennvidde over mange generasjoner og kontinenter, fra Belis tragiske fortid i Den dominikanske republikk til slit og strev og drømmer i forstedenes USA – dette er den vidunderlige historien om Oscar, familien hans og deres søken etter kjærlighet og tilhørighet. TERNING 6 "En sikker vinner!" VG "Makeløst!" Stavanger Aftenblad“Eksotisk, original og vilter, skrevet med stor energi og hjerte.” Guardian“Forbløffende stor.” Lev Grossman, Time“Fantastisk... Høyspent... En fryd å lese, og akkurat like forrykende gledefylt å lese på nytt.” Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly NY BESTSELGER! Vinner av NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE-PRISEN FOR SKJØNNLITTERATUR!
Jeg er ikke en ond fyr. Jeg vet hvordan det låter – defensivt, skruppelløst – men det er sant. Jeg er som alle andre: svak, full av feil, men grunnleggende sett god. Magdalena er uenig. En ny novellesamling fra Junot Diaz, Pultizerprisvinner og bestselgende forfatter av Oscar Waos korte makeløse liv, om kjærlighetens uforglemmelige, umulige kraft. I sentrum av disse fortellingene står den sjarmerende og uimotståelige Yunior, en ung, sjarmerende tøffing som er like besatt av kjærlighet som han er skjødesløs. I en energisk, innovativ, øm og morsom prosa, blottlegger fortellingene den uendelige lengselen og uunngåelige svakheten i menneskenes hjerter. De minner oss på at begjær alltid seirer over erfaring, og at kjærligheten varer evig. ”En absolutt godbit – full av oppfinnsom slang, smittende overstrømmende fortellinger om kjærlighet og utroskap i det dominikansk-amerikanske samfunnet i New Jersey.” Guardian Books of the Year “Lysende, iblant ustyrtelig morsom og alltid avvæpnende … Leserne vil huske hvorfor alle ønsker å skrive som Díaz, ta ham med hjem, eller begge deler. Disse rå og ærlige fortellingene dirrer av hes ghetto-hip-hop og en mer subtil, men mer vital gjenklang av menneskehjertet.” Publishers Weekly ”Glødende, uimotståelige nye noveller … Det er en hard verden Díaz maner fram, men også en verden fylt av humor, som løftes av menneskeåndens hardnakkede gjenstridighet.” People ”Skrivekunst på dette nivået dukker opp, hvis vi er heldige, en eller to ganger per generasjon.” Observer "En av samtidslitteraturens mest særpregete og uimotståelige stemmer.” New York Times
I SÅDAN MISTER DU HENDE dissekerer Junot Díaz kærlighed i alle dens former – besat kærlighed, forbudt kærlighed, forsvindende kærlighed, moderkærlighed. På en strand i Den Dominikanske Republik går et allerede døende forhold skævt. I vaskerummet under et hospital i New Jersey vasker en kvinde sin elskers tøj, mens hun tænker på hans kone. I Boston køber en mand sit kærlighedsbarn dets første baseball hat og handske. I hjertet af Díaz’ novellesamling finder vi den uforglemmelige Yonior, en ung stædig rad, hvis higen efter kærlighed kun modsvares af hans hensynsløshed – og af de usædvanlige kvinder han elsker og mister: kunstneren Alma, den aldrende Miss Lora, Magdalena, der mener alle dominikanske mænd er utro, og hans livs kærlighed, hvis hjertesorg i sidste ende bliver hans egen.
Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet. In prose that is endlessly energetic and inventive, tender and funny, it lays bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of the human heart. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience and that 'love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.'
Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... "Electrifying." -The New York Times Book Review "Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... D az's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O MagazineFrom the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that "the half-life of love is forever."
As es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traici n porque a veces traicionamos lo que m s queremos, y tambi n es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos despu s -los ruegos, las l grimas, la sensaci n de estar atravesado un campo de minas- para intentar recuperar lo que perdimos. Aquello que cre amos que no quer amos, que no nos importaba. Estos cuentos nos ense an las leyes fijas del amor: que la desesperanza de los padres, la acaban sufriendo los hijos, que lo que les hacemos a nuestros ex amantes nos lo har n inevitablemente a nosotros, y que aquello de "amar al pr jimo como a uno mismo" no funciona bajo la influencia de Eros. Pero sobre todo, estos cuentos nos recuerdan que el ardor siempre triunfa sobre la experiencia, y que el amor, cuando llega de verdad, necesita m s de una vida para desvanecerse. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... "Electrifying." -The New York Times Book Review "Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... D az's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O MagazineFrom the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that "the half-life of love is forever."