On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
von Ocean Vuong
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. "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 Poet 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 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!
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
von Ocean Vuong
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. "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 Poet 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 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!
Aktuelle Rezensionen(20)
Rezension von HediEs hat Zeit gebraucht um zu wirken. Wenn man es aber durchzieht ist es gut
Rezension von LeaLebenshighlight Das ist eines dieser Bücher, die nicht einfach gelesen werden, sondern sich festsetzen. Sprachlich ist das auf einem Niveau, das fast weh tut: jeder Satz präzise, zart und brutal zugleich… WIE KANN MAN SO SCHREIBEN??? Formal als Brief geschrieben, kreist der Text um Erinnerung, Herkunft, Gewalt, Begehren und Sprache selbst und darum, wie unmöglich es manchmal ist, geliebte Menschen wirklich zu erreichen. Das Buch ist leise, aber gnadenlos. Nichts wird erklärt, nichts geschont. Leise und trotzdem zieht sich der Text in jede Faser deines Körpers. Setzt sich fest. Lässt dich nicht los. Es fühlt sich stellenweise eher wie gelebte Erinnerung und nicht wie Fiktion an. Und genau das macht es so stark: Diese Nähe, diese Verletzlichkeit, diese Konsequenz im Schreiben.
Rezension von Nadira„Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.“ (32) „I won't stay here long, we might say. I'll get a real job soon. But more often than not, sometimes within months, even weeks, we will walk back into the shop, heads lowered, our manicure drills inside paper bags tucked under our arms, and ask for our jobs back. And often the owner, out of pity or understanding or both, will simply nod at an empty desk—for there is always an empty desk. Because no one stays long enough and someone is always just-gone. Because there are no salaries, health care, or contracts, the body being the only material to work with and work from. Having nothing, it becomes its own contract, a testimony of pres-ence. We will do this for decades—until our lungs can no longer breathe without swelling, our livers hardening with chemicals-our joints brittle and inflamed from arthritis-stringing together a kind of life.“ (80 „This is my superpower, he thinks: to make a dark even darker than what's around me. He stops crying.“ (98) „Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.“ (119) „I miss you more than I remember you.“ (186)
Rezension von AnnIt definitely was an experience… not sure it was a good one tho
Rezension von KübraI’m not sure if I had any expectations to begin with, but the first few pages at least hinted at the kind of book that awaited me. It turned out to be a journey through sadness, questioning, grief and the occasional irritation, all wrapped in the rawness of real life. The authenticity of his childhood memories, fictional as they are claimed to be, caught me off guard. Yet the sense of being suspended between two worlds, cultures and languages felt deeply familiar. The weight of living with parental figures ‘haunted’ by PTSD, was portrayed with an intensity that felt both painfully raw and quietly innocent. 3,5/5