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Hanya Yanagihara lives in New York City.A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind
The Times
A book unlike any other . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger
The Guardian
Exquisite . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship
The New Yorker
[A] wholly immersive unforgettable read . . . You won't stop reading. And it's a novel that changes you
Evening Standard
Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget
Daily Express
Hypnotic . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men
The Economist
<i>A Little Life</i> is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable
The Independent
Piercing . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity
The Times Literary Supplement
Capacious and consuming . . . Immersive
The Boston Globe
Beautiful
Los Angeles TImes
Remarkable. . . . An epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured
The Wall Street Journal
Astonishing
The Atlantic
Deeply moving . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship
NPR
Affecting and transcendent
The Washington Post
Over one million copies sold
Too many broken hearts to count
‘A book unlike any other’ – The Guardian
‘This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship’ – Dua Lipa
JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem.
Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem; the sardonic painter JB; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and Jude, brilliant and enigmatic – their centre of gravity.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize
Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards
Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.