by Ocean Vuong · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072835964
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«Un bref instant de splendeur» is the novel by Ocean Vuong, published by Gallimard in paperback (304 pages, in French).
A son writes to his illiterate Vietnamese mother a letter she will never read. In it he reconstructs his family history: his grandmother's madness after the war, maternal violence, his first love and the discovery of his homosexuality. Writing appears as an attempt to redeem an inherited pain.
It belongs to the Du monde entier collection. Translation by Marguerite Capelle. French edition published in 2021.
A read for those who value epistolary and lyrical narrative about memory, identity and family reconciliation.
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.
