Name: The Emperor of Gladness
SKU: 64317882
Price: 356.00 ZAR
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Author: Ocean Vuong
ISBN: 9781787335417

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ocean Vuong

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781787335417

Synopsis "The Emperor of Gladness"

A masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

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.

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.

Ocean Vuong

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Ocean Vuong (Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, 1988) immigrated to the United States with his family in 1990, after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines. In 2014, he received the Ruth Lilly / Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and with the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the Whiting Award and the Forward Prize in the United States and the T. S. Eliot Prize in England. His texts have been published in outlets such as The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.

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