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Interview: Award-winning poet Ocean Vuong expounds on the complex themes of his deeply moving novel, ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’, touching on masculine identity, concepts of family, drug use, and more.
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- By:Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by:Ocean Vuong
The ear is such a good editor when it comes to rhythm, pressure, momentum.
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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The ear is such a good editor when it comes to rhythm, pressure, momentum.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous took the literary world by storm upon its release in 2019. This deeply personal work, structured as a letter from a Vietnamese-American son to his illiterate mother, explores themes of family, identity, and the immigrant experience with breathtaking prose and raw emotion. The novel received widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades.
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Best Sellers
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The Emperor of Gladness
- A Novel
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,280
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Performance1,213
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Story1,213
An Audie Award finalist The instant New York Times bestseller Oprah’s Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for...
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This is one of those books you don’t forget
- By Shermeen on 05-23-25
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The Emperor of Gladness
- A Novel
- Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,734
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Performance3,219
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Story3,199
A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of...
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Beautifully written, but painful.
- By NB on 06-10-19
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph.
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I’ll still raise my hand and say, play it again.
- By PattyQB on 01-17-26
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-27-25
- Language: English
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Time Is a Mother
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance103
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Story103
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second...
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solomn
- By Camille on 09-05-24
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Time Is a Mother
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-05-22
- Language: English
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En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
Un joven que se descubre a sí mismo en su doble condición de inmigrante y homosexual. Un libro valiente y conmovedor...
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Recordar no es un acto pasivo.
- By Cat G. on 02-08-26
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En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-12-23
- Language: Spanish
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Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios
- By: Ocean Vuong, Anne-Kristin Mittag - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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»Lass mich von vorn anfangen. Ma …« Der Brief eines Sohnes an die vietnamesische Mutter, die ihn nie lesen wird. Die Tochter eines amerikanischen Soldaten und eines vietnamesischen Bauernmädchens ist ...
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Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios
- Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-18-25
- Language: German
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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra
- By: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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La guerra, l'amore per una madre e per la lingua d'adozione, l'emigrazione, la violenza, l'identità, la scoperta del corpo e della perdita, una vita intera a capire cosa significa diventare cittadini di un altro paese: il romanzo d'esordio del poeta Ocean Vuong (T.S. Eliot Prize 2017) è...
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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-13-21
- Language: Italian
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Der Kaiser der Freude
- By: Ocean Vuong, Nikolaus Stingl - Übersetzer, Anne-Kristin Mittag - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Fabian Busch
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ocean Vuongs neues, atemberaubendes Werk nach dem Welterfolg von Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios. Der queere Hai, Sohn einer vietnamesischen Mutter, ...
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Der Kaiser der Freude
- Narrated by: Fabian Busch
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-15-25
- Language: German
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