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THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS TPB

Vuong, Ocean

Εκδότης Vintage , ISBN 9781787335417

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION

Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

'By dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TOIBIN

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.

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION

Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

'By dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TOIBIN

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.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Vuong, Ocean
  • Eκδότης Vintage
  • ISBN 9781787335417
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100088187
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2025
  • Σελίδες 256
  • Διαστάσεις 23χ15
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Vuong, Ocean

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Ο Ocean Vuong γεννήθηκε το 1988 σ’ έναν ορυζώνα στο Βιετνάμ. Σήμερα συγκαταλέγεται ανάμεσα στους πιο ταλαντούχους νέους συγγραφείς της αμερικανικής λογοτεχνίας. Η ποιητική του συλλογή Νυχτερινός ουρανός με τραύματα εξόδου τιμήθηκε με το σημαντικό βραβείο T.S. Eliot.Ο Ocean Vuong γεννήθηκε το 1988 σ’ έναν ορυζώνα στο Βιετνάμ. Σήμερα συγκαταλέγεται ανάμεσα στους πιο ταλαντούχους νέους συγγραφείς της αμερικανικής λογοτεχνίας. Η ποιητική του συλλογή Νυχτερινός ουρανός με τραύματα εξόδου τιμήθηκε με το σημαντικό βραβείο T.S. Eliot.

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