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Ocean Vuong

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Also known as Vương Quốc Vinh

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)

Person · Open Library

Born
1988
Works
10

Top works

  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  • An-My lê Small Wars
  • Burnings
  • Immediately
  • Night sky with exit wounds

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1988-10-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
318
Total plays
981

Tags

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Quotes

  • I think that might not have been enough, were it not for me being my family ’s only hope. Because they were also dying, in a different way: financially, mentally. And I thought, I can’t die. Literally I can’t die.
  • When I really assess Western culture in how it grapples with other bodies and other ecologies of thinking, at the end of the day, my response is: please catch up. And I do mean – please – because we want you to catch up, we want you to be here, because where you’re at is a quicksand that’s killing you.
  • This book is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a coming-of-art. I would say that I begin with the voices of those I care for, family or otherwise, and follow them until they drop off, until I have to create them in order to hear them. My writing is an echo. In this way, On Earth is not so much a novel, but the ghost of a novel. That’s the hope anyway.

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