This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz (2012, Hardcover) Brand New

Description: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz (2012, Hardcover) Brand New. RThe book in the pictures is the one you'll get. Feel free to ask questions and thanks for looking! Note: We'll be moving in three months - any offer will be seriously considered! 'Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with Drown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (Newsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Díaz turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love.' ' This novel was AMAZING!! The author did a great job of creating Yunior as a very likeable, but troubled character. Through writing techniques, such as changing the point of view each chapter, readers are able to understand each character personally and also how each character views one another. For me, however, while most of the time I liked the switches in perspective, it a lot of the time wasn’t clear who was speaking until the end of the chapter. I think the author should have clarified when the speaker changed and to who it changed to, then it wouldn’t have caused as much confusion for me. He might have been doing that on purpose, so you had to figure out who was talking and their relations to the other characters, but I personally did not know who was speaking in many of the chapters. The ongoing conflict in the book that Yunior, his brother, and his dad having relationship and commitment issues helps to shape the theme that relationships require hard work and more than just love in order to be successful. This is very well exhibited in the last chapter, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” when Yunior is head over heels for a girl and then cheats on her anyways despite his love for her. The author also uses an interesting diction choice of mixing of spanish and english throughout the book to portray the importance of background, culture, and the immense role that it plays in the characters lives. Having a spanish to english dictionary nearby is definitely a must when reading because the spanish words pop up during significant moments in the book, which again emphasizes the thematic topic of cultural importance. A symbol that is brought up throughout the book is snow. Snow is mostly mentioned when Yunior is a young boy and is wanting to go play in the snow, and his dad won’t let him. I believe the repetition of snow throughout the novel is to represent wanting something they can’t have. Wanting things the characters don’t have and not being content with what they do have is another major theme. Although this theme is mostly related to relationships and heartbreak, it is also portrayed when talking about the hardships, but also the benefits of moving to the United States. Diaz also uses a very unique syntax technique of not putting in any quotation marks. I loved this so much when I was reading because at times I wasn’t sure whether the characters were speaking out loud or if it was the thoughts in their head. I think this gave me a chance as a reader to interpret some actions and made me wonder and think about what was happening much more. Overall, it was an amazing book with a riveting plot and great, compelling descriptive language that made it impossible to put down.'

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