The most amazing thing about this amazing book is that it won the Pulitzer Prize. The prize that has been awarded to such American stylists as Saul Bellow, John Updike, and Marilynne Robinson, now given to a novel written in a language that few of them would recognize? Yet the Pulitzer was also awarded to Toni Morrison, who virtually invented her own language in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/BELOVED/dp/1400033411/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">BELOVED</a>, to Michael Chabon, who plunged deep into the world of American comics in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/THE-AMAZING-ADVENTURES-OF-KAVALIER-AND-CLAY/dp/0312282990/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY</a>, to Jeffrey Eugenides, who channeled the teenage sexual confusion in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/MIDDLESEX/dp/0312427735/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">MIDDLESEX</a>, and to Oscar Hijuelos, who sang Spanish-inflected blues to his native Cuba in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/THE-MAMBO-KINGS-PLAY-SONGS-OF-LOVE/dp/0060955457/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE</a>. There are elements of all these things in OSCAR WAO, so perhaps the Pulitzer is not such a stretch after all, except that Junot Daz takes everything that much farther.