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Profound exploration of enduring friendship and trauma.

"A Little Life" could resonate deeply if you're drawn to stories that are as emotionally challenging as they are rewarding. Yanagihara's novel is a testament to the complexities of love and friendship, set against the backdrop of life's harshest realities. It’s an immersive journey that spans decades, inviting you to witness the most intimate struggles and triumphs of a tight-knit group of friends. The depth of character development and the intensity of the narrative make this book hard to put down and impossible to forget.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2016)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2016)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2015)
  • Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2015)
  • Jarl Hellemann -palkinto (2017)
  • Blogistanian Globalia (2017)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (2016)
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A Little Life

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ISBN: 9780385539258
Authors: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature, LGBTQ+
Goodreads rating: 4.34
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Description

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.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 he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever. In rich and resplendent prose, Hanya Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.
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Profound exploration of enduring friendship and trauma.

"A Little Life" could resonate deeply if you're drawn to stories that are as emotionally challenging as they are rewarding. Yanagihara's novel is a testament to the complexities of love and friendship, set against the backdrop of life's harshest realities. It’s an immersive journey that spans decades, inviting you to witness the most intimate struggles and triumphs of a tight-knit group of friends. The depth of character development and the intensity of the narrative make this book hard to put down and impossible to forget.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2016)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2016)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2015)
  • Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2015)
  • Jarl Hellemann -palkinto (2017)
  • Blogistanian Globalia (2017)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.