Showing results for "Ocean Vuong" in World Literature

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 20s, 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.

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. 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 epicentre of the break.

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.

La guerra, l'amore per una madre e per la lingua d'adozione, l'emigrazione, la violenza, l'identità, la scoperta del corpo e della perdita, una vita intera a capire cosa significa diventare cittadini di un altro paese: il romanzo d'esordio del poeta Ocean Vuong (T.S. Eliot Prize 2017) è la rivelazione dell'ultima stagione editoriale negli Stati Uniti, considerato dalla critica l'emblema di cosa può essere il romanzo americano. Little Dog, la voce di questo romanzo di esordio tradotto in tutto il mondo, ricostruisce in una lettera alla madre la storia della sua famiglia.