Synopsis

Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2015.

Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards.

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize.

Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction.

The International Bestseller.

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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm, and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.

Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realise, 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.

Details

• Format : Thick Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
• Condition : As New
• Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
• Published : 2015 (This Edition 2016 - Picador)
• ISBN : 9781447294832
• SKU : B000099
• PPC : SP500gm
• RRP : £10.99
• Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua Lipa.

'It's not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork - if anything that word is simply just too little for it.' - San Francisco Chronicle.

'A Little Life feels elemental, irreducible-and, dark and disturbing though it is, there is beauty in it.' - New Yorker.

'Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget.' - Daily Express.

'A darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship. I've read a lot of emotionally taxing books in my time, but A Little Life . . . is the only one I've read as an adult that's left me sobbing.' - Los Angeles Times.

'Capacious and consuming . . . Boasts a scale and immersive power to rival the recent epics of Donna Tartt and Elizabeth Gilbert.' - Boston Globe.

'Astonishing . . . tender, torturous and achingly alive to the undeniable pain that can scar a life.' - Psychologies.

'This book is absolutely brutal and is simultaneously the best and worst book I’ve read in a long time. It sucks you in, takes over your life and then spits you out at the end . . .' - Amazon Review.

The Author

Hanya K Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii.