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Stories Set in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo holds the oldest colonial streets in the Americas, with a modern capital sprawling past them. Dictatorship followed by baseball and dance music made it a city of memory and rhythm. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao footnotes it lovingly; The Feast of the Goat confronts it directly. Open Santo Domingo on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Santo Domingo on the StoryTerra map6 famous stories set in Santo Domingo
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Browse 2 books and 4 movies set in Santo Domingo.
Colao
A coffee grower still single at 40 decides to finally start his search for love by going to the capital city on the Dominican Republic.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of…
Bantú Mama
A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo where she is taken in by a group of children. By…
The Feast of the Goat
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo after several years and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo the Dominican dictator as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Of This World: New and Selected Poems
“A book by Joseph Stroud is a rare and exciting event.”—The Bloomsbury Review"In just four books since the 1960s, the calm, California-based writer—whose works also describe his travels in Vietnam, Laos, India and even…
Jeffrey
Twelve-year-old Jeffrey works on the streets of Santo Domingo washing windshields to help his family’s finances but dreams of becoming a reggaeton singer. With the help of his older brother Jeyson he composes and…
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