On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

An instant New York Times Bestseller!\nLonglisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award\nShortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\nWinner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction!\nNamed one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.\n"A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal...Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post\nPoet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling\nOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.\nWith stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by: 
GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!

ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS

Ocean Vuong

Penguin??Books

Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous /anglais

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.\nOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.\nWith stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.

Penguin Press

Time Is a Mother

Penguin

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Copper Canyon Press

Turtleback

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time' Guardian‘Some of the most beautiful writing I’ve experienced in my lifetime’ OPRAH WINFREYREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:‘Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again’‘I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book… a contender for my favourite of the year’‘I would give it 6 stars if I could’‘Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory’‘A masterwork of compassion and complexity. A book to sit with, to feel deeply, and to return to’College dropout Hai doesn’t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chancesOne summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unexpected of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other’s survival. This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. A Most Anticipated Book in Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times Style, BBC, GQ, New York Times and AnOther'Perfectly tuned… May well be the first millennial Great American Novel’ ArtReview‘A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain’ Observer‘His most vivid, ambitious work yet’ Dazed‘This stunning book moved me so much, I fell in love with its characters and grieved their absence in my life when I turned the last page’ CAITRÍONA BALFE'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TÓIBÍN

The Emperor of Gladness

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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Ocean Vuong 3 Books Collection Set (The Emperor of Gladness, Night Sky With Exit Wounds & Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

"亲爱的妈,我书写是想抵达你-虽然我每写下一个字,离你就又远一个字。" 这是一封儿子写给不识字的母亲的信。讲述者"小狗"在他二十多岁时写下这些文字,款款回溯他与母亲、外祖母在异国相依为命的童年往事,成长中难言的情愫,以及深深扎根在越南潮湿泥土里、历经枪林弹雨的家族史。这封长信见证了祖孙三代间的亲情,同时也是对种族、阶级、自我认同残酷而坦率的探索。他们在创伤中生存,又被同情和温柔所支撑。

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Chinese Edition)

Beijing United Publishing co., LTD

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous & Night Sky with Exit Wounds By Ocean Vuong 2 Books Collection Set

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