Junot Díaz’s New Book, This is How You Lose Her, Published by Alfaguara for Dominican Market

Junot Díaz’s New Book, This is How You Lose Her, Published by Alfaguara for Dominican Market
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 6/25/2013

Following his renowned short story “Negocios” and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,Junot Díaz turned his extraordindary talent in the unforgettable and impossible power of love.

… 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.

F ollowing his renowned short story “Negocios” and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,JunotDíazturned his extraordindary talent in the unforgettable and impossible power of love.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, 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: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own.

In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her 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.”

Available at:

* Cuesta Bookshop 809-473-4020
* AvanteBookshop 809-687-1481
* Arroyo HondoBookshop 809-378-0253
* Hermanos Solano Bookshop809-687-1260
* LuperónJumbo 809-333-2111

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