The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

Novinka

Jazyk:	anglicky
Počet stran:	416
Formát:	12,9 x 19,7 cm
Nakladatel:	Vintage
Vazba:	měkká

Cena:	239,00 Kč

• Anotace

  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.
  
  
  

  Review

  A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain ― Observer
  
  Depicts the emotions of its protagonists with a sensitivity and lusciousness… contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy ― Guardian
  
  Firmly grounded and perfectly tuned… With its poetic morsels, ambivalent love for the rural northeast, and many-layered immigrant stories, The Emperor of Gladness may well be the first millennial Great American Novel ― ArtReview
  
  Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time, The Emperor of Gladness is about just how wobbly things can become ― Guardian
  
  Tender and moving, The Emperor of Gladness is about people on the margins of society and sanity. To my surprise and delight, Vuong’s novel is also wryly, subtly, wittily - and sometimes outrageously - a comedy as well as a tragedy -- Rebecca Solnit
  
  His most vivid, ambitious work yet ― Dazed
  
  Remarkable... A sui generis take on the surprising and cruel ways violence is passed on across generations ― Kirkus Starred Review
  
  [A] heartbreaking epic… Witten in Vuong’s inimitable prose…[it] will doubtless be counted among the great American novels ― Bookseller
  
  A masterwork -- Bryan Washington
  
  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

  About the Author

  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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• Další informace

  ISBN/EAN:	9781529945850
  Rok vydání:	Vintage Publication date ‏ : ‎ 28 May 2026

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