The Emperor of Gladness
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  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529945881
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00

The Emperor of Gladness

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Tr. Paperback
13 May 2025
EBook
15 May 2025
Audiobook
5 Jun 2025
Hardback
15 Jun 2025
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A masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance

The Emperor of Gladness follows a wayward young man in New England who, out of sheer chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia. Hallmarks of Vuong's writing - formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness - are on full display in this masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance.
  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529945881
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor of English at UMass-Amherst. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.

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