On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 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 — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
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Truth be told, reading this book was not pleasant at all. In other words, I find this novel demanding, distracting and discomforting. My limited vocabulary and the narrator’s stream of consciousness prevented me from understanding and completing it. As I t...
評分Truth be told, reading this book was not pleasant at all. In other words, I find this novel demanding, distracting and discomforting. My limited vocabulary and the narrator’s stream of consciousness prevented me from understanding and completing it. As I t...
評分Truth be told, reading this book was not pleasant at all. In other words, I find this novel demanding, distracting and discomforting. My limited vocabulary and the narrator’s stream of consciousness prevented me from understanding and completing it. As I t...
評分不知道大傢知不知道 這種以書信形式寫的小說叫epistolary novel 可以epistolary各種 比如Cheryl Strayed的“Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”是epistolary essay 分享好瞭拜拜
評分不知道大傢知不知道 這種以書信形式寫的小說叫epistolary novel 可以epistolary各種 比如Cheryl Strayed的“Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”是epistolary essay 分享好瞭拜拜
圖書標籤: 小說 英文原版 美國 LGBT 長篇小說 當代歐美文學 OceanVuong 越南
還挺滿足老外對東南亞的想象的
評分語言美到無法形容 Ocean大概詩人齣身 書的結構略散 更多是意識流寫作 但是讀得齣真情實感 such raw emotions make you feel vulnerable too 讀完一邊想掉眼淚一邊想要去擁抱作者 we're all so very alone yet not at all
評分Some sparkling vivid prose, some overwrought pronouncements "just on the right side of vague to seem meaningful" (Irishtimes review). Frustratingly precious, sometime hypnotic, sometimes empty. A semi-fictional memoir exploring intergenerational trauma. Haunting passages on the nail salon and young gay sex.
評分this is depressingly good
評分寫法還是非虛構和詩的寫法,齣版社強扭成小說推銷,讀起來反倒有違和感。我對用美的語言描述暴力仍然持一定保留態度,就像阿多諾說,奧斯維辛之後,寫詩是野蠻的。
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