Resultado narrado por "James Aaron Oh" em Todas as categorias

Zone Manirat has always lived in the shadow of his older brothers—Interpol agent Kit and luxury car mogul Kam. But he’s carved his own space through adrenaline, speed, and his place on Bangkok’s most elite semi-pro racing team. He’s got a car he loves, a girl who understands him, and a future that—finally—feels like his. Then Silo shows up. Silo, an old family friend and an agent with Thailand’s National Intelligence Agency, offers Zone a covert assignment: infiltrate his own racing team and uncover a web of high-tech data trafficking.

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak.

The Emperor of Gladness follows a wayward young man in New England who, out of sheer chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia. Hallmarks of Vuong's writing - formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness - are on full display in this masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance.