Emperor of Gladness

A Novel

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Ocean Vuong: Emperor of Gladness (2025, Diversified Publishing)

666 pages

English language

Published 2025 by Diversified Publishing.

ISBN:
979-8-217-08255-1
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It's a town where high school kids, having nowhere to go on Friday nights, park their stepfathers' trucks in the unlit edges of the Walmart parking lot, drinking Smirnoff out of Poland Spring bottles and blasting Weezer and Lil Wayne until they look down one night to find a baby in their arms and realize they're thirtysomething and the Walmart hasn't changed except for its logo, brighter now, lending a bluish glow to their time-gaunt faces.

Přijde mi, že se autor snažil nacpat do knihy úplně všechno. Imigranty, chudý, lidi bez domova, drogově závislý, autisty, starý, nemocný, zvířata na jatkách, kapitalismus, lgbt, aby to bylo dojemný a trochu mravoučný a ve výsledku je to takový -puff-, na který za pár dní zapomenete.

Myslím, že to bude na instagramu hit. (Tři hvězdičky jsou u mě dobrý hodnocení, znamená to dobrý, ale na zadek si z toho nesednu)

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