A Little Life : The Million-Copy Bestseller

Author: Yanagihara, Hanya

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Published on 10 March 2016 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador).

Paperback | 736 pages
129 x 197 x 49 | 508g

Im not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. Its one of those books that stays with you forever. - Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagiharas A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.

Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Womens PrizeFinalist for the US National Book Award for FictionWhen four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, theyre broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.

Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that hell not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever.

Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind. - The Times