Ocean Vuong

Praise for The Emperor of Gladness
A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain
Observer
Depicts the emotions of its protagonists with a sensitivity and lusciousness… contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy
Guardian
Firmly grounded and perfectly tuned… With its poetic morsels, ambivalent love for the rural northeast, and many-layered immigrant stories, The Emperor of Gladness may well be the first millennial Gr ...
ArtReview
A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain
Observer
Depicts the emotions of its protagonists with a sensitivity and lusciousness… contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy
Guardian
Firmly grounded and perfectly tuned… With its poetic morsels, ambivalent love for the rural northeast, and many-layered immigrant stories, The Emperor of Gladness may well be the first millennial Gr ...
ArtReview
A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain
Observer
Depicts the emotions of its protagonists with a sensitivity and lusciousness… contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy
Guardian
Firmly grounded and perfectly tuned… With its poetic morsels, ambivalent love for the rural northeast, and many-layered immigrant stories, The Emperor of Gladness may well be the first millennial Gr ...
ArtReview