'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:
The million-copy bestseller Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.:
Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize:
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize:
Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction:
When 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn brilliant enigmatic Jude who serves as their centre of gravity.: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: