The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

The Emperor of Gladness by 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

Tender and moving, The Emperor of Gladness is about people on the margins of society and sanityTo my surprise and delight, Vuong’s novel is also wryly, subtly, wittily - and sometimes outrageously - a comedy as well as a tragedy -- Rebecca Solnit
A masterwork -- Bryan Washington
Sad, haunting but ultimately hopeful this is a gut punch and an warm embrace rendered out of poetic, tender prose * AnOther, *Books to Look Out For 2025* *
[An] innovative, playful novel’ * Financial Times, *Books to Look Out For 2025* *
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 *
Praise for Ocean Vuong * On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous *
This is some of the most moving writing I’ve read… The tenderness of the prose feels like a triumph against a world hellbent on embittering the tenderhearted… the truths arrived at in this book are valuable precisely because they are steeped in feeling * New York Times *
Vuong’s determination to see well-trodden ground afresh, with unremitting complexity, is extremely rare... An exciting talent * Sunday Times *
Vuong is a prodigious talent, his handling of words and images both brutal and delicate, his treatment of violence, sex and the body radically clear-eyed * Financial Times *

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 New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781787335400
ISBN 10	1787335402
Title	The Emperor of Gladness
Author	Ocean Vuong
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2025-05-15
Number of pages	416
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