'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 And withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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 Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Inhalt:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’slatest bestselling novel, To Paradise. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-385-53926-5
Inhalt:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’slatest bestselling novel, To Paradise. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-593-55989-5
Inhalt:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-593-50758-2
Inhalt: »Tiefgründig, sensibel, spannend.« Juli Zeh, BörsenblattDrei Jahrhunderte, drei Versionen des amerikanischen Experiments: In ihrem kühnen neuen Roman ? dem ersten seit Ein wenig Leben ? erzählt Hanya Yanagihara von Liebenden, von Familie, vom Verlust und den trügerischen Versprechen gesellschaftlicher Utopien. 1893, in einem Amerika, das anders ist, als wir es aus den Geschichtsbüchern kennen: New York gehört zu den Free States, in denen die Menschen so leben und so lieben, wie sie es möchten ? so jedenfalls scheint es. Ein junger Mann, Spross einer der angesehensten und wohlhabendsten Familien, entzieht sich der Verlobung mit einem standesgemäßen Verehrer und folgt einem charmanten, mittellosen Musiklehrer.1993, in einem Manhattan im Bann der AIDS-Epidemie: Ein junger Hawaiianer teilt sein Leben mit einem deutlich älteren, reichen Mann, doch er verschweigt ihm die Erschütterungen seiner Kindheit und das Schicksal seines Vaters.2093, in einer von Seuchen zerrissenen, autoritär kontrollierten Welt: Die durch eine Medikation versehrte Enkelin eines mächtigen Wissenschaftlers versucht ohne ihn ihr Leben zu bewältigen ? und herauszufinden, wohin ihr Ehemann regelmäßig an einem Abend in jeder Woche verschwindet.Drei Teile, die sich zu einer aufwühlenden, einzigartigen Symphonie verbinden, deren Themen und Motive wiederkehren, nachhallen, einander vertiefen und verdeutlichen: Ein Town House am Washington Square. Krankheiten, Therapien und deren Kosten. Reichtum und Elend. Schwache und starke Menschen. Die gefährliche Selbstgerechtigkeit von Mächtigen und von Revolutionären. Die Sehnsucht nach dem irdischen Paradies ? und die Erkenntnis, dass es nicht existiert. Und all das, was uns zu Menschen macht: Angst. Liebe. Scham. Bedürfnis. Einsamkeit. Zum Paradies ist ein Wunderwerk literarischer Erfindungskraft und ein Kunstwerk menschlicher Gefühle. Seine außergewöhnliche Wirkung gründet in seinem Wissen um den Wunsch, jene zu beschützen, die wir lieben: Partner, Liebhaber, Kinder, Freunde ? unsere Mitmenschen. Und den Schmerz, der nach uns greift, wenn wir das nicht können. Schlagworte:F Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete, FB Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FT Generationenromane, Familiensagas Umfang: 896 S. ISBN: 978-3-8437-2646-7
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