On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Tapa dura, 246 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 13 de febrero de 2019 por Jonathan Cape.

ISBN:: 978-1-78733-150-1

(2 reseñas)

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 …

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.

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Review of 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' / Revisión de 'En la tierra somos brevemente hermosas'

5 estrellas

I was with my partner in the Castro District in San Francisco and we happened to walk into a book store and finally found this book! I’ve been itching to read it for awhile. I picked it up and immediately started reading it. This book is so beautifully written.. it’s very poetic and it’s unusual for me to understand poetry but reading this made it easy. The story follows the main character throughout his life as he understands his sexuality, his relationship with his mother, his part in history, his setting in the US as a child of an immigrant, so many facets of life that I can relate to. There’s talks of trauma and happiness. Beauty and destruction. I loved it.

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Estaba con mi pareja en el distrito Castro de San Francisco y, por casualidad, entramos en una librería y ¡por fin encontramos este libro! Llevaba un tiempo …

I was with my partner in the Castro District in San Francisco and we happened to walk into a book store and finally found this book! I’ve been itching to read it for awhile. I picked it up and immediately started reading it. This book is so beautifully written.. it’s very poetic and it’s unusual for me to understand poetry but reading this made it easy. The story follows the main character throughout his life as he understands his sexuality, his relationship with his mother, his part in history, his setting in the US as a child of an immigrant, so many facets of life that I can relate to. There’s talks of trauma and happiness. Beauty and destruction. I loved it.

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Estaba con mi pareja en el distrito Castro de San Francisco y, por casualidad, entramos en una librería y ¡por fin encontramos este libro! Llevaba un tiempo deseando leerlo. Lo cogí y empecé a leerlo de inmediato. Está escrito de forma tan hermosa... es muy poético y, aunque no entiendo poesía, leerlo me lo facilitó. La historia sigue al protagonista a lo largo de su vida, mientras comprende su sexualidad, su relación con su madre, su parte en la historia, su vida en Estados Unidos como hijo de un inmigrante; tantas facetas de la vida con las que me identifico. Habla de trauma y felicidad. Belleza y destrucción. Me encantó.

adridaine

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29 de septiembre de 2023

Temas

Fiction, coming of age
Mothers and sons, fiction
Fiction, cultural heritage