Available in Paperback
September 3, 2013
Díaz turns his remarkable talent to
the haunting, impossible power of
love – obsessive love, illicit love,
fading love, maternal love. 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.
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AVAILABLE IN DELUXE EDITION
October 31, 2013
A stunningly designed and illustrated slipcase edition of This Is How You Lose Her, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. Jaime Hernandez—deemed “one of the twentieth century’s most significant comic creators” for the “Love and Rockets” series he co-created and other work—has produced full-page, original illustrations for this edition, one for each story, that perfectly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and the string of gorgeous, smart, gutsy women whom irresistible, irrepressible Yunior loves and loses.
Winner of the 2008 National
Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction
Oscar 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. read more
The 10 tales in this intense debut collection plunge us into the emotional lives of people redefining their American identity. Narrated by adolescent Dominican males living in the struggling communities of the Dominican Republic, New York and New Jersey, these stories chronicle their outwardly cool but inwardly anguished attempts to recreate themselves in the midst of eroding family structures and their own burgeoning sexuality. read more