Ocean Vuong

A New York Times bestseller - Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction - Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal... Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "This is one of the best novels I've ever read... Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece."--Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars 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. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A. V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more

A New York Times bestseller - Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction - Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal... Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "This is one of the best novels I've ever read... Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece."--Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars 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. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A. V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more

WINNER of the T. S. Eliot PrizeWINNER of the Whiting AwardWINNER of the Thom Gunn AwardWINNER of the Forward PrizeFinalist: the Kate Tufts Discovery AwardFinalist: the Lambda Literary Award

En av de senaste årens stora litterära sensationer Sverigebesök 31:a maj i samtal med den hyllade franske författaren Édouard Louis på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern VINNARE av Whiting Award for Poetry VINNARE av Thom Gunn Award VINNARE av T. S Eliot Prize 2017 Finalist för Forward Prize Finalist för Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist för Lambda Literary Award Utsedd till en av Årets böcker 2016 av: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Irish Times, Library Journal, Buzzfeed, Bustle, Entropy Magazine & BookThug.» En hisnande svindelkänsla av intimitet och förlust. Det är den förtvivlade lyckan i kärleksdiktens klassiska orfeusblick: just när jag ser dig är du borta.« | Anna Hallberg, Dagens nyheter»Jag är komplett tagen av den här boken. Det är så skickligt och smidigt utfört, så märkligt och vackert, så brutalt, konstant överraskande.« | Kristoffer Folkhammar, Sydsvenskan »Det är en fantastisk diktsamling skriven med en enorm känslighet inför tillvarons villkor.« | Expressen Kultur Ocean Vuongs första fullängdare som poet, Natthimmel med kulhål, har gjort litterär sensation i USA. Boken har jämförts med den engelska litteraturens stora: Emily Dickinson och till och med William Shakespeare. Dikterna utgår från Vuongs erfarenhet som barn av Vietnamkriget. Temana är de stora mänskliga: kärlek, familj, krig, sex, minne, sorg, som på samma gång är strängt och ömt hållna. Det är dikt som genom en rytmens och andningens obrutna förtrollning demonstrerar hur en blid hand på ett bröst förmår blidka också de våldsammaste av mänskliga begär. I svensk tolkning av författaren Andreas Lundberg. OCEAN VUONG är en vietnamesisk-amerikansk poet och essäist, född 1988 i Ho Chi Minh City i Vietnam. Han kom till USA med sin familj som tvååring, efter ett år i flyktingläger på Filippinerna. Vuongs poesi förenar musikaliteten i den muntliga berättelse- och sångtradition han är uppvuxen med, med en kreativ kärlek till det engelska språket. Före Natthimmel med kulhål har han gett ut två chapbooks: Burnings [2011] och No [2013]. Ocean Vuong är i dag bosatt i New York. »Det finns en mäktig emotionell motström i dessa dikter, sprungna ur Ocean Vuongs uppriktighet och frispråkighet, och ur hans förmåga att fånga ögonblick i tiden med både fotografisk exakthet och en känsla för alla tings flyktighet.« New York Times »Som att följa en fisk röra sig: Ocean Vuong hanterar engelskan med ett slags muskulös intuition. Dikterna är på samma gång eleganta och liksom slagna av förundran, berättande och lyriska, formellt bundna och lediga.« | The New Yorker »Det är dikter som du läser för att uppnå förändring.« | Bernur

A book of poetry steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language. It is about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention.

One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year: The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingNPR, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: "The poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds...possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words... There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.""Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."--The New Yorker"The language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelible.... Highly recommended."--Library Journal, starred reviewNight Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with... This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.--Buzzfeed's Most Exciting New Books of 2016 This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level... A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world."--2016 Whiting Award citationNight Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power.--LitHubVuong's powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity--all with a tremendous humanity.--Slate"In his impressive debut collection, Vuong writes beauty into--and culls from--individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity."--Publishers WeeklyTorso of AirSuppose you do change your life.& the body is more thana portion of night--sealedwith bruises. Suppose you woke& found your shadow replacedby a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wallinstead. You carve & carveuntil a coin of light appears& you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eyestaring back from the other side--waiting. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City.

En sensommerkveld i den tidligere industribyen East Gladness, Connecticut, står 19 år gamle Hai på kanten av en bro i øsende regn, klar til å hoppe. Så hører han noen rope til ham fra den andre siden av elva. Stemmen tilhører Grazina, en eldre kvinne, som overtaler ham til å velge en annen utvei. Hun er enke og i ferd med å bli dement. Hai, ensom og uten andre muligheter, blir vergen hennes. I løpet av et år utvikler de to et sterkt vennskap bygd på empati, forståelse og hjertesorg. Det gir Hai fornyet kraft til å endre synet på seg selv, familien sin og et lokalsamfunn på vei mot avgrunnen. Keiseren av gleden er en varm roman om selvvalgte familier, uventet vennskap og om historiene vi forteller oss selv for å overleve. Ocean Vuong skriver med kjærlighet og ømhet om hvordan det er å leve på utsiden av samfunnet og hva det vil si å være menneske. Og om hvor langt vi er villige til å gå for å få en ny sjanse i livet.