Ocean Vuong

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 Winfrey READERS 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 summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other’s survival. This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance. 'The first millennial Great American Novel’ ArtReview ‘His most vivid, ambitious work yet’ Dazed ‘This stunning book moved me so much’ CAITRÍONA BALFE 'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story’ COLM TÓIBÍN

The hardest thing in the world is to live only once… 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 transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on 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 Ocean 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.

"En efterlängtad återkomst efter succégenombrottet." – Borås Tidning "Vuong sveper in alla sina sorgliga karaktärer i ömhetens filter." – Göteborgs-Posten En ung man har bestämt sig för att avsluta sitt liv genom att hoppa från en bro över ett vattenfall i New England. Det är väl inget skamfullt med det, att låta sig dras ned av gravitationskraften som håller oss alla på jorden, tänker han. En äldre kvinna som bor precis intill ser mannen från sitt fönster och lyckas stoppa honom. I Ocean Vuongs nya roman får vi följa den unge mannen, som kommer att bli assistent till den 82-åriga änkan. Det visar sig att de har mer gemensamt än man kunde tro. Ocean Vuong har skrivit en berättelse om vänskap och förlust och om hur mycket vi är redo att riskera för att få en andra chans. Vad betyder det, i själva verket, att leva ett bra liv? Är biologiska band lika starka som de som knyts till andra, de som uppenbarar sig för oss genom livet? Och inte minst: Är det möjligt att växa utan förändring?

En ung man har bestämt sig för att avsluta sitt liv genom att hoppa från en bro över ett vattenfall i New England. Det är väl inget skamfullt med det, att låta sig dras ned av gravitationskraften som håller oss alla på jorden, tänker han. En äldre kvinna som bor precis intill ser mannen från sitt fönster och lyckas stoppa honom. I Ocean Voungs nya roman får vi följa den unge mannen, som kommer att bli assistent till den 82-åriga änkan. Det visar sig att de har mer gemensamt än man kunde tro. Ocean Voung har skrivit en berättelse om vänskap och förlust och om hur mycket vi är redo att riskera för att få en andra chans. Vad betyder det, i själva verket, att leva ett bra liv? Är biologiska band lika starka som de som knyts till andra, de som uppenbarar sig för oss genom livet? Och inte minst: Är det möjligt att växa utan förändring?

"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." —New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space—all under the specter of AIDS. Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections—"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral," and “Memories that Smell like Gasoline”—are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz’s Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life. The new and revised edition features a foreword by Ocean Vuong and a note from the editor, Amy Scholder.

The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." -Oprah Winfrey "Magnificent . . . In writing this book, Vuong may have joined the ranks of an elite few great novelists." -Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times The hardest thing in the world is to live only once 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 transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on 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 Ocean 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.

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 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.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time' 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… a contender for my favourite of the year’‘I would give it 6 stars if I could’‘Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory’‘A masterwork of compassion and complexity. A book to sit with, to feel deeply, and to return to’College dropout Hai doesn’t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chancesOne summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unexpected of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other’s survival. This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. A Most Anticipated Book in Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times Style, BBC, GQ, New York Times and AnOther'Perfectly tuned… May well be the first millennial Great American Novel’ ArtReview‘A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain’ Observer‘His most vivid, ambitious work yet’ Dazed‘This stunning book moved me so much, I fell in love with its characters and grieved their absence in my life when I turned the last page’ CAITRÍONA BALFE'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TÓIBÍN

Glædens kejser er en episk, hjertevarm og bevægende roman om selvvalgte familier, uventede venskaber, og de historier, vi fortæller os selv for at overleve. En sensommeraften i 2009 i byen East Gladness, Connecticut, står den 19-årige Hai på kanten af en bro i silende regn, klar til at springe ud, da han hører nogen råbe tværs over floden. Stemmen tilhører Grazina, en aldrende enke, som er ved at bukke under for demens, og hun får overbevist ham om at vende om. Ensom og uden andre muligheder bliver han hurtigt hendes plejer. I løbet af et år udvikler det umage par et livsforandrende bånd funderet på empati, forståelse og hjertesorg, og med styrke til at ændre Hais forhold til sig selv, sin familie, og et lokalsamfund tæt på afgrunden. Med Glædens kejser har den prisvindende bestsellerforfatter Ocean Vuong begået en forunderlig roman om tab, håb, og tilværelsens allermest flygtige hændelse: en chance til. Et mirakel af en fortælling om, hvad det vil sige at leve i periferien af samfundet, glitrende af Vuongs helt særlige indsigt i, hvad det vil sige at være menneske.

The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." --Oprah Winfrey "Magnificent . . . In writing this book, Vuong may have joined the ranks of an elite few great novelists." --Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times The hardest thing in the world is to live only once... 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 transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on 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 Ocean 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.

Photographer and writer Cig Harvey’s new work is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through pigment Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn 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.

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in 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 the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. 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 fellowship, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. 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.

Ny, etterlengta diktsamling frå kritikarroste Ocean Vuong. I si andre diktsamling leiter Ocean Vuong etter trøyst i det som er att etter mora døydde. Ein omsorgsperson han hadde ein kjærleg, men komplisert relasjon til. Nedtyngd i ein sorgprosess utforskar Vuong det som har vore sentrale motiv sidan debuten hans: Det ein familie har å seie, og kostnaden av å vekse opp i Amerika som eit resultat av ein imperialistisk amerikansk krig. Men denne gongen går han òg enda tettare på det engelske språket, det han aldri fekk velje sjølv. Også denne relasjonen er komplisert og har sin pris. Dikta til Vuong krinsar kompromisslaust, nakent og overgivande kring fragment av liv for å finne støtte, men òg ei meining i eige tilvære. «Tida er ei mor» er eit ømheits-testament i ei valdeleg tid. Boka er gjendikta av Mathias R. Samuelsen.