A Little Life

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Womens Fiction 2016. Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015. the 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; theyre 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm; a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn; brilliant; enigmatic Jude; who serves as their centre of gravity.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 hell not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever.