Only a brief moment of the earthly we are all beautiful

The debut novel of the young, but already well-known Vietnam-American poet Ocean Vong about the role of the family, about first love and the atoning power of the word. Written by the main character at the end of growing up, it reveals the story of the family intertwined with the tragic events of the Vietnamese War.
The hero with warm and nostalgia recalls his Vietnam-American childhood, difficult, but permeated with love. For his family, the boy was a window into the world, the only one who has a chance to be heard and understood. A fragile teenage feeling of love turns into sadness and loneliness. Life is a brief moment of beautiful among pain and misunderstanding. And yet, like the butterflies migrating every year, the craving for movement and changes is stronger.
This novel is about the need to be heard, it is permeated with tenderness and compassion. This is a bold study of the collective and individual injury.
The book has already been translated into 16 languages, in total 30 translations are expected to different languages.

Prizes
winner of the New England Book Award /> shorts -List Dylan Thomas Prize
Short list Center for FIRST FIRST NOVEL Prize
Long list of National Book Award, Carnegie, Aspen Words Literacys
Pen /Hemingway awards for the best. > One of the most anticipated books of 2019 according to Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, AV Club, The Week, Rumpus, THE MILLIONS AN Six weeks were included in the list of bestsellers The New York Times

What, in our opinion, this book
about family history, broken into fragments of military shells.
About the sense of powerlessness and about power of words.
About attempts to understand another and oneself, about how it feels to be a stranger and look for your place in the world.
About the desire to live and about the feeling of beautiful, which Always with you, despite the pain.

For whom this book is
for connoisseurs of emotionally filled intellectual literature.
For those who follow the loud news of modern prose.
For those who love beautiful language and poetry in prose.
For lovers of auto -playing