{"product_id":"the-emperor-of-gladness-discover-the-sunday-times-bestseller-about-chosen-family-and-second-chances-one-of-2026s-most-powerful-new-reads","title":"The Emperor of Gladness: Discover the Sunday Times bestseller about chosen family and second chances, one of 2026's most powerful new reads","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vuong, Ocean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Cape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 15-05-2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787335417\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again’\u003cbr\u003e\n‘I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book… a contender for my favourite of the year’\u003cbr\u003e\n‘I would give it 6 stars if I could’\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory’\u003cbr\u003e\n‘A masterwork of compassion and complexity. A book to sit with, to feel deeply, and to return to’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCollege dropout Hai doesn’t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chances\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOne summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unexpected of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other’s survival.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA Most Anticipated Book in Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times Style, BBC, GQ, New York Times and AnOther\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time' Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TÓIBÍN\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Tender and moving' REBECCA SOLNIT\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A masterwork' BRYAN WASHINGTON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787335417\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.1 x 6.0 x 1.3 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Land DU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51824246227245,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/9748\/7917\/files\/71EN1HSxLaL.jpg?v=1771070207","url":"https:\/\/ebookland.in\/products\/the-emperor-of-gladness-discover-the-sunday-times-bestseller-about-chosen-family-and-second-chances-one-of-2026s-most-powerful-new-reads","provider":"Book Land DU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}