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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to 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"--
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ocean Vuong
- Verlag
- Penguin LCC US
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 052550771X
- ISBN13
- 9780525507710
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Liebe, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Freundschaft, USA, Kriegsliteratur, Kriege, LGBTQ+ Literatur, Amerikanische Literatur, Literarische Fiktion, Erinnerungen, Erwachsenwerden, Drogen, Briefe, Homosexualität, Familiengeheimnisse, Migration, Einwanderung, Vietnam, Mütter und Söhne, Vietnamesische Literatur, Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Originaltitel
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to 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"--