Océan

2025 · 18108 — NY: Penguin Press 2025. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 6th printing w/number line. Signed intials by author. Request free DJ mylar by emailing seller. Features: Price on Product. Physical Info: 1.4" H x 9.2" L x 6.3" W 1.35 lbs 416 pages. Unclipped DJ w/price $30.00 crisp tight new book is wrapped in shipping paper & wrapped in bubble wrap and then boxed with tracking number. Thank you. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness Connecticut nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain ready to jump when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina an elderly widow succumbing to dementia who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond one built on empathy spiritual reckoning and heartbreak with the power to transform Hai's relationship to himself his family and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history memory and time The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love labor and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing--formal innovation syntactic dexterity and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness--are on full display in this story of loss hope and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.<br /> Audie Award Nominee for Literary Fiction & Classics and for New Voice 2026 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Audiobook 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction 2025 The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books Nominee for Longlist 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist 2026 She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Book of the Year and Literary Fiction 2025. Penguin Press hardcover