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Cargando... On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (Random House Large Print) (edición 2019)por Ocean Vuong (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not a good match for me. There were parts that were good- the immigrant experience, the underbelly of US society, the character of his grandmother Lan, but also parts that were gratuitous like cruelty to animals and the mechanical details of sex that seemed to have been randomly inserted just because. The prose is fine in general and there are some good lines, though I wasn’t enraptured as others seem to have been, which is a similar experience to how his poetry has struck me. ( ) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous follows Little Dog through a letter to his mother. His whole life, he has lived in a limbo between two different cultures and languages, which have hindered his ability to connect with his mother. So, he uses this letter, despite his mother being illiterate, to create a form of connection with her through language, which he has never been able to fully achieve. The writing is exquisite and beautiful, filled with poetry, prose, and musings on life and human connections. It works really well at showing the disconnect Little Dog has with language and communicating, specifically with his mother. I listened to this on audiobook, and I will absolutely be purchasing this book so I can re-read and annotate it. Trigger warnings: - Vietnam war - Animal abuse - Homophobia - Xenophobia/racism - Abuse (domestic, child, sexual) Having finished reading this novel, On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, one looks back at its poetic title and wonders what it means. Like the words and the story elements in the novel it seems the five words that make up the title are each beautiful, and they are seemingly connected; they seemingly suggest an ideal state that we might long for, but more likely these five words are disconnected, they are simply suspended in the air. Reading On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, you also have to recall the time frame of the Vietnam War. Since it took place before I was born, and ended during my early youth, nonetheless, the images of the boat refugees is clearly in my mind. Significant dates and the start of the conflict as early as 1955, the end of American involvement in 1973 and the fall of Saigon in 1975, and the subsequent migration crisis of the Vietnamese boat people from its height in the late 1970s till the beginning of the 1990s. In as far as On Earth we're briefly gorgeous autobiographical, that means that the flight it set in that final decade of the late 1980s. Much of the story is quite horrible. Little Dog, as the main character is dubbed, has made a narrow escape, but misery follows his. The history of his grandmother, the troubles of his mother which also beset Little Dog in the new land, as he often needs to solve their problem follow him wherever he goes. In fact, the misery left behind in Vietnam is only replaced by different misery in the new land. A brief moment of bliss and love is foreshortened by his lover's death from drug abuse. Little Dog is in the centre of all this misery. Still, all is dressed in the most beauteous, poetic language. Beauty, in the form of language: poetry, beautiful language surrounds him. It is where he turns to find relief. None in his family could read, but from the age of 11 Little Dog manages to read. Writing becomes the way to deal with his life's misery. The book, though not in linear chronological order, is a letter, written to his mother. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Un joven que se descubre a s? mismo?en su doble condici?n de inmigrante y homosexual. Un libro valiente y conmovedor. Un hijo le escribe una larga carta a su madre, que no sabe leer. La carta es en realidad un examen de conciencia, un repaso a los elementos clave que han ido conformando su identidad: como hijo de una familia de vietnamitas que huyeron de su pa?s rumbo a Estados Unidos y como joven que descubre y asume su homosexualidad.El entorno familiar del chico se compone de la abuela ?ahora anciana y moribunda?, que tuvo que marcharse de Vietnam con sus hijas despu?s de pasar por experiencias muy duras para sobrevivir acabada la guerra: se hab?a casado con un militar estadounidense y a?os despu?s del triunfo del Vietcong la familia fue evacuada a Filipinas, donde pas? un tiempo en un campo de refugiados, y desde all? emigr? a Am?rica. Hay tambi?n un padre maltratador y ausente, que fue arrestado por agredir a su esposa. Y est? la madre maltratada, que trabaja en un sal?n de manicura y mantiene una compleja relaci?n con su hijo. Y, por ?ltimo, el joven protagonista de esta historia, que creci? en Hartford, Connecticut, sufri? acoso escolar por su doble marginalidad ?como inmigrante y como homosexual? y descubri? siendo un adolescente el amor y la sexualidad con Trevor...Un libro bell?simo y veraz, inspirado en las vivencias ?ntimas del autor, que combina momentos de extrema crudeza con otros de una belleza sutil y elusiva. Ocean Vuong nos deslumbra con esta primera novela en la que la literatura se convierte en una precisa y potente herramienta de evocaci?n, descubrimiento y exploraci?n para narrar el paso de la adolescencia a la madurez.«Una narraci?n personal e intimista... Vuong es un escritor s?lido y audaz, y su primera novela es muy potente» (Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle).«Vuong es magistral creando im?genes impresionistas e imborrables... La novela contiene algunas de las p?ginas m?s conmovedoras que he le?do en mi vida sobre dos chicos experimentando juntos... Un libro espl?ndido» (Justin Torres, The New York Times Book Review).«Una obra maestra... Valiente, reveladora y extraordinaria» (Literary Journal).«Un texto crudo y luminoso» (Kirkus Reviews).«Una de las novelas m?s hermosas que he le?do, una maravilla literaria y una pieza de una extraordinaria humanidad. Una verdadera obra maestra» (Max Porter).«Una carta de amor herida e imponente que nunca se enviar?. Un poderoso testimonio de la magia y la p?rdida. Una maravilla» (Marlon James).«Vuong se enfrenta a los l?mites del lenguaje (...) y expande nuestra percepci?n de lo que la literatura puede hacer visible, pensable y sentible a trav?s de fronteras y generaciones y g?neros» (Ben Lerner).«Uno no tiene muy a menudo la oportunidad de aplicar palabras como?"brillante" y "extraordinaria" a muchas novelas, y menos a una primera novela. Gracias, Ocean Vuong, por esta brillante y extraordinaria primera novela» (Michael Cunningham). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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