To be released globally on January 11 (and already available on pre-order), To Paradise is divided into three parts and three different imagined characterisations of the United States. Whatever, we should definitely keep our distance.” She is dressed in black, her dark hair drawn back from creamy skin, the only colour a rosebud of red lipstick. “Some person thought it could be the human version of foot and mouth disease. “No one knows what it is,” she says calmly, tucking herself into the corner of a large couch. The poor woman is suffering an unidentified affliction which has given her a sore throat and a painful, itchy rash on her palms. She has been at Paris Fashion Week for her day job as editor-in-chief of T magazine, The New York Times′ monthly style insert, and is here for a day of interviews to promote her new book, To Paradise. One sunlit autumn morning in London, I meet its author, Hanya Yanagihara. But it eventually sold more than a million copies worldwide and was shortlisted for that year’s Booker Prize. The 2015 novel was a sleeper at first, passed by word of mouth from reader to reader: it was handed down through my family like promised treasure. We were helplessly invested in Jude’s fate, as were his three brilliant friends, devoted to him but ultimately unable to save him. Others were compelled to bear witness, weeping the while. Some readers couldn’t bear one more unrelenting account of the appalling abuse suffered by Jude, whose story it becomes, and thrust the book aside.
Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeĪ Little Life is one of those books that will stay with you till the end of your days – if, that is, you managed to finish it.
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