إمبراطور السعادة.. نادي أوبرا للكتاب

##### "Amazing...a moving and profound study of those living on the margins of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." - Oprah Winfrey. An instant New York Times bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club pick, named a best book of 2025 by Time, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, and [Christian Science] Monitor](https://www.csmonitor.com/About?cmpid=mkt:ggl:sub&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22863179504&gbraid=0AAAAADibdWzO b4WO3BGRH7_rbg-5vjgiQ&gclid=CjwKCAiA3-3KBhBiEiwA2x7FdGT79WyCjAVuYY4wpkaTf8X2BSyJj6FfgCzSq3Hyq1QvzBdG7M4hDhoChHwQAvD_BwE) Scientific American, Kirkus Reviews and a finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Prize for Excellence. Ocean Vuong returns with a poignant novel about chosen family, unlikely friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. The hardest thing in the world is to only live once... On a late summer evening in the industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, Hay, 19, is standing on the edge of a bridge in the pouring rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone screaming across the river. The voice returns to Grazyna, an elderly widow suffering from dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Desperate and out of options, he quickly becomes her patron. Over the course of a year, this unlikely duo forges a life-changing bond, one built on empathy, spiritual contemplation, and profound grief that has the power to transform Hay's relationship with himself, his family, and his crumbling community. By tracing the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Happiness shows the profound ways in which love, work, and unity form the foundation of American life. At its core, a bold saga about what it means to exist on the margins of society and confront the wounds that haunt our collective soul. The hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing—formal innovation, grammatical dexterity, and the ability to combine toughness and tenderness through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss and hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.