The Emperor of Gladness

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' 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''I would give it 6 stars if I could''Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory''A masterwork of compassion and complexity'College dropout Hai doesn't know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life.One 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.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 people go to find a second chance.'The first millennial Great American Novel' ArtReview'His most vivid, ambitious work yet' Dazed'This stunning book moved me so much' CAITRÍONA BALFE'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story' COLM TÓIBÍN (lib)

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.

The debut novel of the acclaimed young poet. Little Dog writes a letter to a mother who cannot read, contending with a family history with Vietnam at its centre but speaking of the concerns of the contemporary American moment. (lib)

Ein Roman, der die amerikanische Identität neu definiert. Und der Brief eines Sohnes an die vietnamesische Mutter, die ihn nie lesen wird: Die Tochter eines amerikanischen Soldaten und eines vietnamesischen Bauernmädchens ist Analphabetin, kann kaum Englisch und arbeitet in einem Nagelstudio. Sie ist das Produkt eines vergessenen Krieges. Der Sohn, ein schmächtiger Außenseiter, erzählt - von der Krankheit der Großmutter, den geschundenen Händen der prügelnden Mutter und seiner tragischen ersten Liebe zu einem amerikanischen Jungen. Ocean Vuong schreibt mit traumhafter Klarheit von einem Leben, in dem Gewalt und Zartheit aufeinanderprallen.

"Ein grandioses Buch! Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, in die Kindheit, nach Vietnam, in die Gewalt und die Liebe." Sasa Stanisic - Der Debütroman von Ocean Vuong"Lass mich von vorn anfangen. Ma ..." Der Brief eines Sohnes an die vietnamesische Mutter, die ihn nie lesen wird. Die Tochter eines amerikanischen Soldaten und eines vietnamesischen Bauernmädchens ist Analphabetin, kann kaum Englisch und arbeitet in einem Nagelstudio. Sie ist das Produkt eines vergessenen Krieges. Der Sohn, ein schmächtiger Außenseiter, erzählt - von der Schizophrenie der Großmutter, den geschundenen Händen der prügelnden Mutter und seiner tragischen ersten Liebe zu einem amerikanischen Jungen. Vuong schreibt mit alles durchdringender Klarheit von einem Leben, in dem Gewalt und Zartheit aufeinanderprallen. Das kraftvollste Debüt der letzten Jahre, geschrieben in einer Sprache von grandioser Schönheit.

Gedichte vom Autor des gefeierten Debütromans »Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios«. Hier ist sie wieder, die unverwechselbare Stimme von Ocean Vuong, die einen sofort in Bann zieht - ob in seinem gefeierten Roman 'Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios' oder in diesem Gedichtband, der Vuongs Ruhm begründet hat. In den zwischen Versform und Prosa changierenden Gedichten beschwört Vuong seine Vergangenheit herauf: die Kindheit, die Liebe zum Vater, die Gewalt, die er als schwuler Sohn vietnamesischer Einwanderer auch im Land der erträumten Freiheit Amerika erfährt. Sein preisgekrönter Lyrikband wagt es, mit unerhörter Dringlichkeit und grandioser Poesie die Wunden der Menschheit zu erkunden.

Ocean Vuongs neuer, atemberaubender Roman nach dem Welterfolg von "Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios" Der queere Hai, Sohn einer vietnamesischen Mutter, lebt in East Gladness, einem heruntergekommenen Kaff in New England. Auf den Straßen hängen noch die Schilder der Obama-Kampagne 'Yes, we can', doch Hai schluckt Pillen und denkt an Selbstmord. Bis er Grazina aus Litauen kennenlernt, eine Überlebende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, in deren Kopf die unerlösten Geister ihres Lebens schwirren. Hai wird ihr Pfleger und fängt an, in einem Diner zu arbeiten, dessen Belegschaft alles Underdogs sind wie er, die 'in dieser angeblich freien Welt aus Arbeit, Schlaf und beschissenen Kuchen gefangen sind.' Poetisch und komisch, eindringlich und mit außergewöhnlicher Intimität erzählt Ocean Vuong von der Freundschaft jenseits aller Grenzen von Identität und Familie. 'Hier kristallisiert sich heraus, was es heißt, wenn Klasse, Herkunft, Sexualität, auch Jugend und Alter, Stadt und Provinz, aufeinander wirken.' FAZ zu "Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios"

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean VuongHow else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good partIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted 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 AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named 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."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 PostPoet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingOn 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. With 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.Named 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!

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted 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 AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named 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."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 PostPoet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingOn 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. With 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.Named 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!

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor of English at UMass-Amherst. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.

In questa raccolta profondamente intima, Ocean Vuong viaggia nella memoria, attraverso il tempo e le esperienze vissute. Il punto di partenza è costituito dalla perdita della madre e dalla dolorosa elaborazione del lutto. Spostandosi fra i ricordi, e in sintonia con i temi del suo romanzo "Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra", l'autore ci parla del significato della famiglia, delle sue origini vietnamite, del paradosso di essere il prodotto di una guerra americana pur vivendo in America. Originali e incisive, le poesie di Vuong raccontano non solo del suo complesso rapporto con l'amatissima madre, ma anche delle dipendenze, della discriminazione, di vite contraddittorie e frammentate che tuttavia conservano la loro bellezza e unicità; colpisce l'attenzione riservata al dettaglio, all'oggetto di uso quotidiano, al particolare che ai più sfugge. Nonostante una grande intensità evocativa, i versi non sono privi di ironia, spesso tagliente, e sperimentano sia con il linguaggio che con la forma. Tenero, coraggioso e coinvolgente, l'autore di "Cielo notturno con fori d'uscita" si appella al potere salvifico della poesia per proiettarsi verso il futuro, verso la vita. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. (lib)