Our fleeting splendor on earth

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

"I've always told myself that we are all products of war - but I was wrong. We are all products of beauty."
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◆This is an epistolary novel based on the personal experiences of Wang Ouxing, winner of the Eliot Prize, the Whiting Prize, and the MacArthur Genius Award.
◆It shocked the literary world as soon as it was published and was listed on the New York Times bestseller list.
◆It is one of the novels with the most entries on the authoritative media’s annual book selection list in 2019.
2020 National Book Awards
2020 Mark Twain American Voice Literary Award
2019 MacArthur Genius Grant
2019 New England Booksellers Association Award finalist; 2020 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award finalist; 2019 National Book Award finalist; 2019 Carnegie Medal finalist; 2019 ASPEN WORDS Literary Award finalist; The New Yorker Book of the Year; Time Book of the Year; The Washington Post Book of the Year; Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The Guardian Book of the Year; The Times Book of the Year; The Observer Book of the Year; Publishers Weekly Book of the Year; Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year; The Irish Independent Book of the Year; Toronto Star Book of the Year...
◆A Saigon teenager's coming-of-age memoir and a poignant family story◆A brutal and frank exploration of family, race, class, gender, and self-identity◆Brief Introduction◆
I am a puppy.
My grandmother, Lan, gave me my name. In the village where Lan grew up, people gave children like me, who were too thin, a name of meanness to protect them. A name is thin as air, but it can also serve as a shield. A puppy shield.
My mother, grandmother, and I fled the war to come to America. I shed our native language and put on my English like a mask so others could see my face, and then theirs.
I'm writing to my mother as the Son of Man. I have so much to tell her. Memories, and the secret I've never spoken. Because I don't want to be erased before I even reveal who I am.
◆Recommended by celebrities and media◆
"Inspiring, shocking, urgent, and necessary" are apt descriptions of this book, but the word that lingers in my mind is "naked": the emotions here are so powerful that after reading it, you feel it piercing your bones. Wang Ouxing examines with a poet's precision: Can experience expressed in words bridge the wounds of generations, and can it be heard and seen by those we truly love? -- Celeste Ng, author of "A Quiet Place" This book is not "briefly brilliant" but "eternally stunning." -- The Washington Post
The heartfelt and unpretentious story is told with refined words and style. — "Pages"

2023-06-01

北京联合出版公司

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9787559668721