on earth we re briefly gorgeous
En la tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos es la primera novela del poeta vietnamita-estadounidense Ocean Vuong, publicado en Estados Unidos por la editorial Penguin Group el 4 de junio de 2019. Es una novela epistolar, está escrita en forma de una carta de un hijo vietnamita-estadounidense a su madre analfabeta.
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATIONA marvel Marlon James Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuongs shattering coming of age novel. This 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 familys history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his familys struggle to forge a new future.And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dogs life his mother has never known – episodes of bewilderment, fear and passion – all the while moving closer to an unforgettable revelation.Reminded me that every word can be an incantation, and that beauty does hard and important work Rebecca Solnit
This 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. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his family’s struggle to forge a new future. And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dog’s life his mother has never known – episodes of bewilderment, fear and passion – all the while moving closer to an unforgettable revelation.
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/09/2020
- ISBN: 9781529110685
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: RANDOM HOUSE
Este libro ha sido escrito y pretenece a Ocean Vuong
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 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.
