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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Pocket
Engelsk
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  • Forfatter: Ocean Vuong
  • Format: Pocket
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780525562047
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
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The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction

“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

Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling


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