One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times, Critics Pick Boston Globe, Best Books listing NPR, Best Books listing Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year Library Journal, Best Books of 2016
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: The poems in Mr. Vuong s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Woundspossess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson s work,...
One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times, ...
A book of poetry steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language. It is about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention.
A book of poetry steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language. It is about the most profound subjects - love and loss, confl...
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.
'A marvel' MARLON JAMES
This 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. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his family's struggle to forge a new future. And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dog's...
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redem...
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATIONREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:‘Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again’‘I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book… a contender for my favourite of the year’‘I would give it 6 stars if I could’‘Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory’‘A masterwork of compassion and complexity.
A book to sit with, to feel deeply, and to return to’Desperate college dropout Hai is ready to make a devastating choice until a chance...
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATIONREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:‘Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then r...
