by Ocean Vuong · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433980595
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A young man discovers himself in his dual condition as an immigrant and homosexual. The novel tells the story of a son who writes a long letter to his mother, who cannot read. This letter becomes an examination of conscience, a review of the key elements that have shaped his identity: as the son of a Vietnamese family who fled to the United States and as a young man who discovers and assumes his homosexuality. The story explores themes of identity, family, immigration, and the search for belonging, all narrated with a prose that combines rawness and beauty.
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant the same year. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.
