Ocean Vuong Livres

Un soldat américain a baisé une jeune fermière vietnamienne. D'où le fait que ma mère existe. D'où le fait que j'existe. D'où le fait que : pas de bombes = pas de famille = pas de moi. "J'ai entendu Ocean et l'océan en moi... depuis ce livre, tout bouge non seulement autour de moi, mais surtout au fond de cette âme qui s'est dénudée.." - Kim Thúy. "Extatique, grivois, hanté et génial..." - The Boston Globe. "Un puissant courant traverse ces poèmes..." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. "Une fois entendue, cette voix ne nous quitte plus." - The Guardian. Traduit par Marc Charron. En plus de figurer aux côtés d'Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki- Moon et Warsan Shire parmi les 100 penseurs les plus influents du monde en 2016 de la revue Foreign Policy, Ocean Vuong a été l'un des " 32 écrivains asio-américains à ne pas manquer " de BuzzFeed Books. Récipiendaire d'un prix Whiting 2016.

This definitive collection includes more than 100 poems composed over the last forty years. Thich Nhat Hanh's clarity shines forth in Call Me by My True Names, transforming the pain and difficulty of war and exile into a celebration of awareness and the human spirit.

Gedichte vom Autor des gefeierten Debütromans »Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios«. Hier ist sie wieder, die unverwechselbare Stimme von Ocean Vuong, die einen sofort in Bann zieht – ob in seinem gefeierten Roman 'Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios' oder in diesem Gedichtband, der Vuongs Ruhm begründet hat. In den zwischen Versform und Prosa changierenden Gedichten beschwört Vuong seine Vergangenheit herauf: die Kindheit, die Liebe zum Vater, die Gewalt, die er als schwuler Sohn vietnamesischer Einwanderer auch im Land der erträumten Freiheit Amerika erfährt. Sein preisgekrönter Lyrikband wagt es, mit unerhörter Dringlichkeit und grandioser Poesie die Wunden der Menschheit zu erkunden.

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

The Emperor of Gladness follows a wayward young man in New England who, out of sheer chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia. Hallmarks of Vuong's writing - formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness - are on full display in this masterful story of friendship and how much we're willing to risk to possess one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance.

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.

Dojímavý román o rodine, ktorú si sami vyberáme, o nečakanom priateľstve a o príbehoch, ktoré si rozprávame, aby sme prežili. Devätnásťročný Hai stojí v prudkom daždi na okraji mosta a premýšľa, či má jeho život ešte zmysel. V poslednej chvíli naňho zakričí Gražina, staršia vdova, ktorá stráca pamäť, a presvedčí ho, aby si zvolil inú cestu. Medzi mladíkom a starou ženou sa postupne vytvára puto, ktoré im zmení život a má moc upraviť Haiov vzťah k sebe samému, k svojej rodine i ku komunite na pokraji zániku. Ocean Vuong rozpráva o tom, čo znamená existovať na okraji spoločnosti a vyrovnať sa s ranami, ktoré prenasledujú našu dušu, a predostiera nám príbeh o strate, nádeji a o tom, ako daleko sme schopní zájsť, aby sme získali druhú šancu.