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A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller

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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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


Lukija: Oliver Wyman
Kesto:

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554 arvosanaa

Minna

17.3.2024

Koskettava kuvaus ystävyyssuhteista ja välittämisestä sekä lapsuuden tapahtumien vaikutuksesta elämään. Itkin lukuisia kertoja kirjan aikana. Mestariteos, mutta olisi voinut olla vähemmän traaginen ollakseen yhtä hyvä tai jopa parempi.

toini

2.3.2024

Äänikirja on keskeneräinen.

Marie

21.11.2023

Erittäin surullinen tarina.. tärkeistä asioista puhutaan mutta kuvattu hyvin raaka ihmis kohtalo.