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Ocean Vuong

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      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 late summer evening in the town of East Gladness, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow.From this moment, his second chance begins. Over the course of the year, Hai’s story takes new and unexpected turns, as his life-altering bond with Grazina transforms his relationship to the community, his family and, most powerfully of all, to himself.‘An epic about forgiveness and narrow escapes, of chosen family and the American Dream’ GQ‘His most vivid, ambitious work yet’ Dazed‘The first millennial Great American Novel’ ArtReview‘This stunning book moved me so much’ Caitríona Balfe‘A poetic, dramatic and vivid story’ Colm Tóibín

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ocean Vuong EAN: 9781529945850 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 416 WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 198 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-05-28 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Friendship WIDTH: 129 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Connecticut, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships

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      Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ and the American Book Award, he was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently splits his time between western Massachusetts and New York City.

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      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 late summer evening in the town of East Gladness, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow.From this moment, his second chance begins. Over the course of the year, Hai’s story takes new and unexpected turns, as his life-altering bond with Grazina transforms his relationship to the community, his family and, most powerfully of all, to himself.‘An epic about forgiveness and narrow escapes, of chosen family and the American Dream’ GQ‘His most vivid, ambitious work yet’ Dazed‘The first millennial Great American Novel’ ArtReview‘This stunning book moved me so much’ Caitríona Balfe‘A poetic, dramatic and vivid story’ Colm Tóibín

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ocean Vuong EAN: 9781529945850 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 416 WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 198 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-05-28 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Friendship WIDTH: 129 mm SPINE:

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      Connecticut, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships

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      Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ and the American Book Award, he was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently splits his time between western Massachusetts and New York City.

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