by Ocean Vuong · Jonathan Cape · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781787335417
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«The Emperor of Gladness» is the literary fiction novel by Ocean Vuong, published by Jonathan Cape in paperback (416 pages, in English).
In East Gladness, Connecticut, young Hai is about to jump from a bridge when Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, speaks to him from the other bank. After becoming her caregiver, Hai finds an unexpected family in her and in his diner colleagues. A story about friendship, loneliness and second chances.
The novel was published in 2025 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. Ocean Vuong is also the author of 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, book clubs and the BookTok community interested in queer stories and chosen family.
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.
