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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- ナレーター: Ocean Vuong
- 再生時間: 7 時間 19 分
- カテゴリー: LGBT, 文学・フィクション
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The Vanishing Half
- A Novel
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: Their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for White, and her White husband knows nothing of her past.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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Educated
- A Memoir
- 著者: Tara Westover
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan
- 再生時間: 12 時間 10 分
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Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. Her quest for knowledge transformed her.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: Alix Dunmore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works.
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Homeland Elegies
- A Novel
- 著者: Ayad Akhtar
- ナレーター: Ayad Akhtar
- 再生時間: 10 時間 19 分
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Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one - least of all himself - in the process.
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Hamnet
- 著者: Maggie O'Farrell
- ナレーター: Ell Potter
- 再生時間: 12 時間 42 分
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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The Vanishing Half
- A Novel
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: Their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for White, and her White husband knows nothing of her past.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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Educated
- A Memoir
- 著者: Tara Westover
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan
- 再生時間: 12 時間 10 分
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Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. Her quest for knowledge transformed her.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: Alix Dunmore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works.
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Homeland Elegies
- A Novel
- 著者: Ayad Akhtar
- ナレーター: Ayad Akhtar
- 再生時間: 10 時間 19 分
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Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one - least of all himself - in the process.
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Hamnet
- 著者: Maggie O'Farrell
- ナレーター: Ell Potter
- 再生時間: 12 時間 42 分
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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The Girl in the Letter
- 著者: Emily Gunnis
- ナレーター: Jane McDowell
- 再生時間: 10 時間 4 分
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A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late.
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- ナレーター: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- 再生時間: 9 時間 8 分
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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The Flatshare
- 著者: Beth O'Leary
- ナレーター: Carrie Hope Fletcher, Kwaku Fortune
- 再生時間: 10 時間 8 分
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Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window....
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 著者: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- ナレーター: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- 再生時間: 4 時間 16 分
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
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Invisible Women
- Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- 著者: Caroline Criado Perez
- ナレーター: Caroline Criado Perez
- 再生時間: 9 時間 24 分
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In her new audiobook, Invisible Women, award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. She exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.
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Clear information taught.
- 投稿者: LIEW PEI SHENG 日付: 2020/04/20
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The Bromance Book Club
- 著者: Lyssa Kay Adams
- ナレーター: Andrew Eiden, Maxwell Caulfield
- 再生時間: 9 時間 9 分
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Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: His wife, Thea, has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him. Welcome to the Bromance Book Club. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men.
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Exhalation
- 著者: Ted Chiang
- ナレーター: Ted Chiang, Edoardo Ballerini, Amy Landon, 、その他
- 再生時間: 11 時間 22 分
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From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story ‘The Story of Your Life’ was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short stories.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Americanah
- 著者: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ナレーター: Adjoa Andoh
- 再生時間: 17 時間 28 分
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As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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Unworthy Republic
- The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
- 著者: Claudio Saunt
- ナレーター: Stephen Bowlby
- 再生時間: 11 時間 36 分
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In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
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The Color Purple
- 著者: Alice Walker
- ナレーター: Alice Walker
- 再生時間: 7 時間 58 分
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.
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Beloved
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 12 時間 3 分
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
批評家のレビュー
“A bruised, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” (Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf)
“On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous will be described - rightly - as luminous, shattering, urgent, necessary. But the word I keep circling back to is raw: that's how powerful the emotions here are, and how you'll feel after reading it - scoured down to bone. With a poet's precision, Ocean Vuong examines whether putting words to one's experience can bridge wounds that span generations, and whether it's ever possible to be truly heard by those we love most.” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere)
“This book - gorgeous is right there in the title - finds incredible, aching beauty in the deep observation of love in many forms. Ocean Vuong's debut novel contains all the power of his poetry, and I finished the book knowing that we are seeing only the very beginning of his truly magnificent talent.” (Emma Straub, author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers)
あらすじ・解説
An instant New York Times Best Seller!
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction!
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)
Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more!
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- susan marlatt
- 2019/12/06
Clearly a poet
As a poet, his writing is luminous. As a storyteller, he is more muddled. Individual parts are heartbreakingly beautiful but the arc of story is continuously interrupted and confusing. His narration is clear but flat almost monotone.
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- Lucas Sweeney
- 2019/11/15
Didn't Finish - Couldn't Take the Audio
Just because the author wants to narrate their own book on audio doesn't mean you should let them. I found it maudlin, faint, cloying, and ultimately book-ruining. Basically the opposite of other great author-narrated books like Florida (Lauren Groff) and Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt). I'll read it instead.
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- David
- 2019/06/13
I never write reviews
I never (and I mean never) write reviews, but Vuong's new memoir is so remarkable that I couldn't help myself. This book is as moving and profound as his earlier collections, yet he's managed to blend poetic form and traditional narrative in a way so original and beautiful that you can't help but be held so still by his words.
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- Hope Cohn
- 2019/09/26
Ocean Vuong Should Not Narrate His Books
The author should not narrate his books. He writes beautifully and while his voice maybe suitable for reading poetry, he speaks in such a monotone, with no variation or inflection, that I found it impossible to listen to the book. What a shame!
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- LJ
- 2019/06/23
Transforming Shrapnel into Art
Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese-American writer, has made “art out of the shrapnel” of the Vietnam War. Originally, the author spoke little English in the American city of Hartford. A “yellow” little boy, he tells us, he pieces together a humble life reflecting on how his different appearance matches a different sexual desire. This wanting and longing informs a large portion of the middle section of the book. His writing has a fragile tenacity: the slightest observation is rendered palpable and visceral by his poetic skill which comes at you from so many angles that it is like a gentle assault. An assault that slaps your senses into the power of language to create beauty and reflect on the essential nature of our brief lives. This epistolary novel, a letter to his mother, reflects on his early insecurities, inchoate understanding of his wanting another, the loss of his protective but schizophrenic maternal grandmother, and his mother’s PTSD whose main symptom is her violence against him. There are so many metaphors that provoke reverie, but one moment of the novel revolves around the words, “I’m sorry, “ and I almost wept for the powerless among us. Those who are sold prescription pain killers which are addictive only to be blamed for this or those who work too many hours for too little pay. But when one considers death, then powerlessness would include us all. The glorious resolution of this sorrow is to be seen for one brief moment (a life). This gorgeous prose from a brilliant writer affirms dignity in the power of language to transform shrapnel into art. Bravo!
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- Lauren
- 2019/06/09
beautiful
will read again and again. language like a tide, cradles and crashes against you. great perspective for writers as well.
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- chris
- 2019/09/17
Important, crushing and beautifully poetic book
This isn’t an easy story. If you want to feel good, you probably should look elsewhere. If the exploration of intersectionality and the often painful ways that gender, sexuality, race and nationality might impact one’s experience of life is interesting to you, this is well worth the read. Mental illness, trauma and drug abuse are all present in this story. It is difficult to read and it is a crushing and beautifully poetic book. i found the first third required patience and the narration performance wasn’t my favorite. I would probably prefer to read this than listen to it.
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- Joanne
- 2019/08/18
Only Slightly Gorgeous
Thought what's wrong with me that I didn't love this novel and was relieved when it was finished. But after reading the Audible reviews see that I'm not alone. First the narration is so monotone and whispery. Definitely poetic in form and not typical fiction. Loved a previous reviewers comment that "sometimes a bloody nose is a bloody nose and a glass of milk is just a glass of milk". Also the novel keeps skipping around in time and I wasn't always quite sure where we were. Obviously this is not a feel good novel but that is not the purpose of all literature. War, prejudice, poverty, drug addiction etc., etc. are real and can and should be artfully portrayed. Real life can be heart breaking. Getting a pedicure or eating veal will never be the same.
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- HeyJude
- 2019/10/15
Deeply introspective...
Poetic in style, disturbing at times, extremely graphic in a necessary way that has its own beauty, effortless prose nearly dreamlike. Definitely complicated. This is an introspective’s telling and as a highly introspective empath, I found myself getting caught up in the emotions that Little Dog expounds on throughout the telling. So dark and haunting, possessing only rarely any joyful experiences... and they’re still draped in a sort of suffering. You ache for these people. You want to rescue them, hold them, tell them to hang on. But in the end what you witness is a sort of insistent strength and resilience. Those who pick this book up will be taken on quite the ride.
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- Andrew
- 2019/07/15
A strong debut novel
Ocean Vuong's history is in poetry and that certainly shows. The prose is incredibly poetic and emotional, with strong use of imagery and metaphor. Vuong's performance is based in deeply felt emotion, but is one note of generic emotional vulnerability through the entire novel, which can be repetitive and boring. The story is interesting- a long letter from a son to his mother detailing their lives of poverty, abuse, and pain. As a queer Asian American, I relate to the story on a much deeper level than most, but I don't think enjoyment of the story hinges on your sexuality and race. Basically, even if you're straight and white, this is gonna pull at your heart. It's a great first try and I'm looking forward to hearing more from him.