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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
A Little Life

A haunting tale of enduring friendship and personal demons.

This book is a raw and deeply emotional exploration of the complexities of friendship and the weight of trauma. It will stay with you long after you've turned the last page, leaving you with a profound sense of compassion and understanding. A Little Life is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit, reminding us that even amidst darkness, there is still hope and love to be found.

  • 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.

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara
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ISBN: 9781447294832
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2016-03-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: LGBTQ+, Feminism, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.34
(rated by 583323 readers)

Description

A National Book Award finalist. A Man Booker Prize finalist. Winner of the Kirkus Prize. A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.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.
 

A haunting tale of enduring friendship and personal demons.

This book is a raw and deeply emotional exploration of the complexities of friendship and the weight of trauma. It will stay with you long after you've turned the last page, leaving you with a profound sense of compassion and understanding. A Little Life is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit, reminding us that even amidst darkness, there is still hope and love to be found.

  • 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.

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