New book from Ocean Vuong, the Emperor of Gladness, released last month.
His first novel On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, remains to be the most beautiful novel I’ve ever read. How does someone master a second language so well that it feels like he’s forged a new, transnational tongue, piercing biological boundries and allowing us to speak to our past selves?!
Truly “Heartbreaking, heartwarming, yet unsentimental”. Ocean Vuong is a literary genius, raised by an illiterate mother. His novels have proved one thing, the finest language can transcend words entirely.
