Hanya Yanagihara

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.

Nowa, długo wyczekiwana książka autorki bestsellerowego „Małego życia” „Do raju” Hanyi Yanagihary to epicka i niezwykle błyskotliwa powieść, której akcja rozgrywa się na przestrzeni trzech stuleci w trzech różnych wersjach Ameryki. To śmiała historia o kochankach, rodzinie, stracie i ulotnej obietnicy utopii. W alternatywnej rzeczywistości osadzonej w 1893 roku Nowy Jork należy do Wolnych Stanów. Ludzie mogą tu żyć i kochać wedle własnych upodobań – tak im się przynajmniej wydaje. Pewien neurotyczny potomek prominentnej rodziny odrzuca oświadczyny zamożnego konkurenta, ulegając urokowi niezwykle pociągającego, ale też biednego nauczyciela muzyki.

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A Little Life. To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya Yanagihara's understanding of our desire to protect those we love - lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love as they please (or so it seems).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. 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 disappearance. What unites these characters, and these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human - fear, love, shame, need, loneliness - and the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise.'I'm not sure I've ever missed the world of a book as much' - Observer'Not only rare . . .revolutionary' - Michael Cunningham'Prepare to weep in public and be utterly transformed' - Stylist

The million copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction Winner of Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards Finalist for the US National Book Award For FictionWhen four graduates 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 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 he'll 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'A Little Life makes for near-hypnotically compelling reading, a vivid, hyperreal portrait of human existence that demands intense emotional investment' - Independent