Hanya Yanagihara Livres

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life “Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

"In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can't exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness."--Publisher

Światowa sensacja literacka! Najgłośniejsza amerykańska powieść ubiegłego roku, nominowana do Nagrody Bookera i National Book Award; laureatka prestiżowej Kirkus Prize. Zachwycająca powieść o przyjaźni poddanej ogromnej próbie. Oto historia życia czterech przyjaciół – o ich niełatwym dojrzewaniu, ogromnych sukcesach, bolesnych wyborach i tyranii pamięci, od której nie sposób czasem się uwolnić… To również opowieść o jednym z najbardziej fascynujących miast świata – Nowym Jorku – który jest piątym, równorzędnym bohaterem tej olśniewającej książki.

"En una versión alternativa de la América de 1893, Nueva York forma parte de los Estados Libres, donde el matrimonio homosexual está permitido. Un muchacho de familia distinguida se debate entre casarse con un pretendiente elegido por su abuelo o escoger a un profesor de música con pocos recursos de quien está enamorado. En un Manhattan de 1993 asediado por "la enfermedad", un joven hawaiano vive con su pareja, cuya edad e ingresos superan con creces los suyos, y le oculta su infancia problemática y el destino de su padre. Y en 2093, en un mundo asolado por plagas y gobernado por un estado totalitario, un poderoso científico y su familia intentan encontrar las estrategias necesarias para sobrevivir sin perderse unos a otros por el camino. Como en una sinfonía fascinante e ingeniosa, estas tres partes conforman una novela monumental, histórica y distópica en la que el amor parece imposible y, sin embargo, los protagonistas, con sus limitaciones y secretos, se obstinan en buscarlo como único modo de llegar al paraíso."--Back cover

Het boek dat je leven verandert Je zult nu nog niet begrijpen wat ik bedoel, maar op een dag wel: de enige truc voor vriendschap is volgens mij dat je mensen uitzoekt die beter zijn dan jij - niet slimmer of populairder, maar aardiger, guller en vergevingsgezinder - en dat je die waardeert om wat je van ze kunt leren, dat je je best doet naar ze te luisteren als ze je iets over jezelf vertellen, hoe slecht - of goed - het ook is, en dat je ze vertrouwt, wat het allermoeilijkste is. Maar ook het allermooiste. Vier studievrienden zoeken samen hun weg in New York: de knappe aspirant-acteur Willem, de flamboyante kunstenaar JB, beginnend architect Malcolm en Jude St. Francis. Jude is teruggetrokken, slim en raadselachtig, maar de overige drie mannen weten wel beter dan vragen te stellen over zijn verleden. De ambitieuze studenten worden succesvol en rijk, maar desondanks wordt de duisternis in Jude steeds groter. Zijn vrienden proberen zijn pijn te verlichten en in hoogleraar Harold vindt Jude een vaderfiguur. Maar naarmate de decennia verstrijken dringt zich de vraag op of Jude wel verlost kan worden van de demonen uit zijn verleden.