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by Ocean Vuong
★王鷗行2025年最新作品★
【一段意外的忘年之交，成為彼此的重要家人】
19歲的男孩 Hai 原本將投河自盡，罹患失智症的80歲寡婦 Grazina 出聲勸他重新思考自己的決定。暫時別無人生選項的 Hai 成為了 Grazina 的看護，兩人間將建立改變彼此生活的聯繫。
ISBN: 9798217059225
尺寸: 15.5 x 2.3 x 23.5 cm
頁數: 416頁
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
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.
