- •The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- •It’s perfectly fine if you don’t believe in these ‘superstitions’. In fact, it’s better than fine — it’s perfect. Because no matter what you believe, fukú believes in you.
- •The moronic inferno
- •Oscar is brave
- •Oscar comes close
- •I’d kill him first.
- •Amor de pendejo
- •It was Ana. Standing in his foyer, wearing a full-length leather, her trigueña skin blood-charged from the cold, her face gorgeous with eyeliner, mascara, foundation, lipstick, and blush.
- •Oscar in love
- •I feel it, you say, too loudly. Lo siento.
- •I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.
- •La chica de mi escuela
- •It’s your fault! she swore, meant in more ways than one.
- •I don’t like him, Beli said. He looks at me.
- •Hunt the light knight
- •I love you! she wanted to scream, I want to have all your children! I want to be your woman! But instead she said, You be careful.
- •I’m allowed to do anything I want, Beli said stubbornly, with my husband.
- •El hollywood
- •The gangster we’re all looking for
- •I do not lie. How many rooms do you want?
- •I don’t need a job. He’s going to buy me a house.
- •It was La Inca who saw it first. Well, you finally did it. You’re pregnant. No I’m not, Beli rasped, wiping the fetid mash from her mouth. But she was.
- •Revelation
- •In the shadow of the jacaranda
- •I don’t know who in carajo—
- •Hesitation
- •La inca, the divine
- •Choice and consequences
- •Fukú vs. Zafa
- •I met something, Beli would say, guardedly.
- •Back among the living
- •La inca, in decline
- •I want to leave. I hate this place.
- •I wish I could say different but I’ve got it right here on tape. La Inca told you you had to leave the country and you laughed. End of story.
- •The last days of the republic
- •I’m thinking of going to Nueva York.
- •It was pretty horrible. As for punkboy, apparently dude jumped right out the window and ran all the way to George Street. Buttnaked.
- •I’d be sure to have ugly daughters.
- •I mean someone, Abelard said darkly.
- •Santo domingo confidential
- •The bad thing
- •I know, I know, Lydia, but what should I do? Jesú Cristo, Abelard, she said tremulously. What options are there. This is Trujillo you’re talking about.
- •Chiste apocalyptus
- •If the stories are to be believed, it all had to do with a joke.
- •The fall
- •Abelard in chains
- •It wasn’t long after that visit that Socorro realized that she was pregnant. With Abelard’s Third and Final Daughter.
- •The sentence
- •Fallout
- •The third and final daughter
- •The burning
- •I am your real family, La Inca said forcefully. I am here to save you.
- •Forget me naut
- •Sanctuary
- •Oscar takes a vacation
- •The condensed notebook of a return to a nativeland
- •It was also reported that Oscar drooled on himself and didn’t wake up for the meal or the movie, only when the plane touched down and everybody clapped.
- •La beba
- •I don’t need your help. And she ain’t a puta.
- •A note from your author
- •The girl from sabana iglesia
- •Oscar at the rubicon
- •I got one, he said. She’s the girlfriend of my mind.
- •Last chance
- •Oscar gets beat
- •Clives to the rescue
- •Close encounters of the caribbean kind
- •It wasn’t completely egregious, he said. I still had a few hit points left.
- •Part III
- •I might partake. Just a little, though. I would not want to cloud my faculties.
- •Curse of the caribbean
- •The last days of oscar wao
- •On a super final note
- •Veidt says: ‘I did the right thing, didn’t I? It all worked out in the end’. And Manhattan, before fading from our Universe, replies: ‘In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends’.
- •The final letter
- •Acknowledgments
- •Table of Contents
Table of Contents
PART I
ONE
THE GOLDEN AGE
THE MORONIC INFERNO
OSCAR IS BRAVE
OSCAR COMES CLOSE
AMOR DE PENDEJO
OSCAR IN LOVE
TWO
THREE
LOOK AT THE PRINCESS
UNDER THE SEA
LA CHICA DE MI ESCUELA
KIMOTA!
NÚMERO UNO
HUNT THE LIGHT KNIGHT
AMOR!
EL HOLLYWOOD
THE GANGSTER WE’RE ALL LOOKING FOR
REVELATION
UPON FURTHER REFLECTION
NAME GAME
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES 1
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES 2
IN THE SHADOW OF THE JACARANDA
HESITATION
LA INCA, THE DIVINE
CHOICE AND CONSEQUENCES
FUKÚ VS. ZAFA
BACK AMONG THE LIVING
LA INCA, IN DECLINE
THE LAST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC
FOUR
PART II
FIVE
THE FAMOUS DOCTOR
AND SO?
SANTO DOMINGO CONFIDENTIAL
THE BAD THING
CHISTE APOCALYPTUS
IN MY HUMBLE OPINION
THE FALL
ABELARD IN CHAINS
THE SENTENCE
FALLOUT
THE THIRD AND FINAL DAUGHTER
THE BURNING
FORGET ME NAUT
SANCTUARY
SIX
THE DARK AGE
OSCAR TAKES A VACATION
THE CONDENSED NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO A NATIVELAND
EVIDENCE OF A BROTHER’S PAST
OSCAR GOES NATIVE
LA BEBA
A NOTE FROM YOUR AUTHOR
THE GIRL FROM SABANA IGLESIA
LA INCA SPEAKS
YBÓN, AS RECORDED BY OSCAR
WHAT NEVER CHANGES
OSCAR AT THE RUBICON
LAST CHANCE
OSCAR GETS BEAT
CLIVES TO THE RESCUE
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN KIND
DEAD OR ALIVE
BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL
ALIVE
SOME ADVICE
PATERSON, AGAIN
PART III
SEVEN
CURSE OF THE CARIBBEAN
THE LAST DAYS OF OSCAR WAO
EIGHT
AS FOR US
ON A SUPER FINAL NOTE
THE DREAMS
AS FOR ME
AS FOR US
THE FINAL LETTER
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS