Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

Every night at 6 p.m., no matter how busy his day is, Jason Hoang sits down for dinner with his family—a tradition he's kept ...

A personal parade for a President’s self-glory, a new Presidential airplane which has been described as a “flying palace” ...

A man was taken into police custody on Saturday after he broke the armrest off an ancient Vietnamese throne recognized as a ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as he takes care of Grazina and works in a fast-casual restaurant to help support them. Told in moments, “The Emperor of Gladness” takes existentialism to ...

Our main character, a 19-year-old depressed Vietnamese American boy named Hai ... Starbursts Russia was always sucking on. The Emperor of Gladness is a truly great novel about work — still ...

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his help as a kind of live-in nurse.

The author draws heavily on his own life — from Hai’s family fleeing the Vietnam War to their jobs in the service industry that allow them to scrape by — so “The Emperor of Gladness” is ...

Ocean Vuong, Author, "The Emperor of Gladness": There's just something ... An immigrant from Vietnam, Vuong, now 36, spent most of his childhood in a working-class community in Hartford ...

Vietnam’s BHD & Vietnam Media Corp are launching sales here in Cannes on historical martial arts action movie The Last Secret Of The First Emperor, set to star Johnny Tri Nguyen (Da 5 Bloods).