This Is How You Lose Her
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Erscheinungsdatum
11.09.2012
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Penguin Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
240 (Printausgabe)
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1283 KB
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Englisch
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9781101596951
Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award
A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize Chosen 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… Díaz's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O Magazine From 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."
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Men who are charming and chauvinistic at the same time
To get this out of the way: The thematic variety of the stories in this collection is not too broad. Mostly Dominican men disappoint the women who fall for them. However Díaz turns himself into these men's mouthpiece. Sure, you still want to scream at the women in his stories: "Don't let that guy into your heart, in the end it won't have been worth it" - still Díaz lets us see behind those scoundrels' façades. It is not that the men he creates are just mean for the sake of it or because they do not care for the women in their lives. Nor are they misunderstood heroes. No, they are simply guys who value charme more than reliability. In 2018 I attended a reading session of Díaz, who also talked about what he thought was the main cause for his characters' behavior, namely the situation of Dominican immigrants, who are faced with the collision of cultures and languages and in the process lose their footing, so their only sensible response is to try to float through life being as charming as possible. This explains Díaz's empathy when writing these characters, and it also allows the reader to have a better understanding of them. It is not, however, a nice book for some lovely recreation.
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