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title: "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: ‘A masterpiece’ – Max Porter"
brand: "ocean vuong"
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# On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: ‘A masterpiece’ – Max Porter

**Brand:** ocean vuong
**Price:** € 9.81
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- **What is this?** On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: ‘A masterpiece’ – Max Porter by ocean vuong
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lyrical and Heartbreaking — A Poem Disguised as a Novel
*by A***A on 6 April 2025*

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous isn’t just a novel — it’s a letter, a memory, a confession. Ocean Vuong’s writing is absolutely stunning. It reads like poetry, each line soaked in emotion and meaning. The way he explores trauma, identity, immigration, queerness, and family is both brutally honest and beautifully delicate.The narrative doesn’t follow a traditional plot structure, which might not be for everyone. It’s more reflective, a stream of memories and feelings rather than clear-cut events. But that’s what makes it powerful — it’s real, like sifting through someone’s soul.I found myself pausing often, not because I was bored, but because a sentence hit too hard or too beautifully. This is a book you feel more than follow.If you’re looking for a fast-paced story, this isn’t it. But if you want something raw, poetic, and emotionally profound, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will stay with you long after the final page.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book about love - for family, history, partners
*by D***A on 29 December 2021*

This is the debut novel of Vuong (a Vietnamese and immigrant) published in 2019. It is written as a tribute to his mother - and that is how it is written in form of letters to his mother, which she will never get to read as she doesn’t even know how to read. And as mentioned in the book, as the mother believes in reincarnation, the author hopes that she reads this book sometime in her next life.Writing to his mother and telling her secrets about himself is also more like a “trying to break free” kind of writing. The family here in the novel is a fractured one, with mother and grandmother both suffering from mental illnesses. He is abused by his mentally ill mother and tortured further by his schoolmates. Finally he finds solace in his first love of his life - Trevor, an American teenager, which is lost later due to substance abuse.The language is figurative, so needs patience to read it. The book is filled with lot of information, more like from the memories of the LIttle Dog (protagonist of the book). It is filled with scenes filled with physical abuse, insult, being bullied for being yellow, or white, or queer, or someone who made different choices as against the conventional choices. Like when Little Dog’s grandmother had run away from her arranged marriage, her mother kept saying that there’s no place for women who run away from marriage and she ends up becoming a sex worker.It brings to the reader’s notice war related trauma that goes on for generations, if not healed, the difficulty of being a non - white refugee in the US, the marketing strategies of pharma companies to sell addictive material as pain relief pills, and so forth.The title (for which the book even got my attention in the first place), is so true. That we might not feel the beauty all the time, but there will be those little moment, when we feel beautiful. And that is what the life is worth living for and working hard for - that brief moment of feeling gorgeous.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A true masterpiece
*by R***A on 2 March 2025*

"Sometimes being offered tenderness is the very proof that you've been ruined."Ocean's vuongs language is living, breathing poetry. The sort of novel you would cry over after it ends, because it ends. Explores the impact of war and a mother son relationship in a redefined way. Awaiting his next book!

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*Last updated: 2026-01-31*