Used book – Los Boys, Junot Diaz

"Novel? Collection of short stories? Neither, but a series of vignettes about a young boy from Santo Domingo preparing to emigrate to the United States, which together form a detailed tapestry. We follow the narrator from childhood to near adulthood: there's life on the streets with friends, odd jobs, searching for weed to smoke on weekends. [...] Junot Díaz – whom American critics compare to Raymond Carver – proves to be an authentic writer: he has a tone, a language that blends English with Hispanic-Dominican slang, that breaks up sentences and reproduces, while magnifying, the spoken language in the barrios of Santo Domingo. The last story, about the narrator's father's arrival in the United States, is dazzling. We genuinely look forward to Junot Díaz's first novel."

Christophe Mercier, Le Point