Cada año nuestros amigos del New York Times preparan una “listica” de los mejores 10 libros del año. No se que estaban fumando este año, pero no incluyeron el libro de Junot Diaz en dicha lista. Parece que se la estan fumando de la pura.

The 10 Best Books of 2007

I came across this New York Times book review for Junot Diaz’s book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which I would like to recommend to our readers.

Although the reviewer stretches it a bit, as NYT writers often do, by employing labored and extended literary terms that in the end don’t say much, “The tale of Oscar’s coming-of-age is in some ways the book’s thinnest layer, a young-adult melodrama draped over a multigenerational immigrant family chronicle that dabbles in tropical magic realism, punk-rock feminism, hip-hop machismo, post-postmodern pyrotechnics and enough polymorphous multiculturalism to fill up an Introduction to Cultural Studies syllabus.” Still, the review is worth taking a look at. (I believe NYT writers get paid by word count.)