Ocean Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1988, and two years later his family emigrated to the United States after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines. He is now a poet and he is the young author who has chosen Rosalia to read during your tour.
And it is that everything that the Catalan singer touches becomes fashionable: the frosted shadowsthe denim panties And till your favorite potato omelette in Barcelona. That is why as soon as Rosalía published a carousel of photos on her Instagram and one of them featured the back cover of a book, the Twitter machinery was launched to find which book it was.
The answer was given by the editorial of Anagrama that discovered the secret of the book that Rosalía was reading: the first novel by Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong. And although there were doubts about the thickness of the book, everything seemed to be the result of taking the photo with the wide angle, because even the publisher checked it.
Or Ocean Vuong?❤️🔥 https://t.co/5yA4krEu9s
– Editorial Anagrama (@AnagramaEditor) August 30, 2022
What Rosalía reads: On earth we are fleetingly great
On earth we are fleetingly great, the first novel by Ocean Vuong, is the reading chosen by the queen of motomamis. Is about On earth we are fleetingly great, a book about a young man who discovers himself in his double condition of immigrant and homosexual. Inspired by the most intimate experiences of the author, the novel is as raw as it is beautiful and has conquered the singer who has taken the novel on her Latin American tour.
On Earth we are fleetingly great: 1022 (Panorama of Narratives)
The novel is a letter from the protagonist to his mother, in which he reviews key moments of his life that have shaped his identity, from the family’s flight from Vietnam to the United States, to the protagonist’s discovery and acceptance of his own homosexuality. But this long letter is really an examination of conscience because his mother doesn’t even know how to read.
As if she were King Midas, Rosalía turns everything she touches into gold, and Ocean Vuong’s first novel is not going to be an exception.
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