《On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous》作者：Ocean Vuong【EPUB】

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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.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.


Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award, he used to work as a fast-food server, which inspired The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City.

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《在地球上，我们曾短暂地美丽过》是一封儿子写给一位不识字的母亲的信。这封信是“小狗”在二十多岁时写的，它揭示了一个发生在他出生之前的家庭故事——这个故事的核心与越南紧密相连。通过这封信，我们得以了解母亲从未知晓的关于他生活的种种细节，最终揭示了一个令人难以忘怀的真相。这本书既展现了单亲母亲与儿子之间那种复杂而真挚的爱，也以极其坦诚的态度探讨了种族、阶级以及男性气质等议题。它提出了许多关于美国当前社会现状的重要问题：在成瘾、暴力与创伤充斥的社会中，我们该如何治愈彼此、拯救彼此，同时又不放弃自己的本真？如何生存，以及如何将生存转化为一种快乐……这些问题构成了这部多年来最出色的处女作小说的核心主题。奥申·武昂以令人震撼的笔触描绘了那些生活在不同世界之间的人们，并思考着：我们该如何在保持自我本真的同时，彼此治愈、彼此拯救？