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Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing – formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness – are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.

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.

This definitive collection includes more than 100 poems composed over the last forty years. Thich Nhat Hanh's clarity shines forth in Call Me by My True Names, transforming the pain and difficulty of war and exile into a celebration of awareness and the human spirit.

„Ocean Vuongs Gedichte sind voller Wunden, voller Zweifel, voller Liebe.“ (taz) – Ein neuer Gedichtband vom Autor des Bestsellers „Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios“ „Ich wurde geschaffen, um zu sterben, doch ich bin jetzt hier, um zu bleiben“ schreibt Ocean Vuong in seinem neuen Gedichtband, der eine bewegende Elegie für seine verstorbene Mutter enthält. Der Schmerz und die Freude, die Gewalt und die Zartheit, die Andersartigkeit von Begehren und sozialer Herkunft, die gespaltene Identität des Einwandererkindes – in „Zeit ist eine Mutter“ finden sich die Themen seines gefeierten Romans „Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios“ wieder, aber auch Provokationen wie das Gedicht „Amazon-Verlauf einer ehemaligen Nagelstudioarbeiterin“. Vuongs Stimme ist unverwechselbar. Niemand hat in unserer Zeit eindringlicher und zugleich intimer über die Wunden Amerikas gedichtet.

In 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.

Ocean Vuong könyve brutálisan őszinte, költői nyelven megírt vallomás a szerelemről, a családról, a bevándorlásról, a szegénységről és a szeretetről. A húszas éveiben járó fiú, Kiskutya, anyjának írott levelében meséli el családjuk történetét, amelynek gyökerei a háború sújtotta Vietnámtól az amerikai Hartford városáig nyúlnak. A fiú alámerül anyja bombák szaggatta emlékképeibe, hogy elmesélje a háború okozta traumákat, a kivándorlás és az új otthon keresésének nehézségeit, valamint kettejük függőséggel és frusztrációkkal terhelt kapcsolatát. Mindeközben keresi azokat a szavakat is, amikkel őszintén megvallhatja a dohányföldeken dolgozó, drogfüggő fiúval, Trevorral való barátságát és vonzalmát. Vuong lenyűgöző sűrűséggel és megértéssel beszél a különböző világok határán lebegő emberekről, arról, hogyan élhetjük túl a való élet sivárságát, és arról, hogyan gyógyíthatjuk és menthetjük meg egymást anélkül, hogy elfelednénk, kik vagyunk.

On 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 epicentre 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 the American moment, immersed as it is 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

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize 'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New Yorker An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention- '...the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.' This is an unusual, important book- both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years. 'These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. One of the most important debut collections for a generation.' Andrew McMillan Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year PBS Summer Recommendation