CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2016Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards 2016Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and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 overcome – but that will define his life for ever.Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara (Picador Collection, 5)
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2016Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards 2016Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and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 overcome – but that will define his life for ever.Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Reviewed by Hells🦦Ein wirklich schreckliches Buch und gleichzeitig doch so schön. Meine Freundin hat es mir gegeben und mich gewarnt, es ist schlimm meinte sie, sie konnte es nicht beenden. Durch die ersten Seiten haben ich mich langsam gemüht, bis es mich gepackt hat. Der Schreibstil ist klasse und es hat mich nicht mehr losgelassen. Emotional war ich am Ende als ich es fertig gelesen hatte, aber gleichzeitig hat es mich verändert. Danach konnte mich erstmal kein anderes Buch so mitnehmen und ich denke auch heute immer wieder an die Geschichte der vier Freunde. Ja, es ist lang, aber ich würde es jedem empfehlen, der gerne liest. Trotzdem mit etwas Vorsicht, denn es hallt nach und behandelt Themen mit einer brutalen, schrecklich, schönen Ehrlichkeit, sodass ich manchmal auch sauer auf die Autorin war, dafür, dass sie doch immer nochmal einen Schritt weitergeht