A Little Life

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 The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. 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.

"A Little Life" er Hanya Yanagiharas uforglemmeligt mesterværk om venskabets ubrydelige bånd og et smertefuldt traume fra barndommen, der ekkoer langt ind i voksenlivet. I "A Little Life" følger vi fire studiekammerater, mens de fattige og forvirrede flytter til New York på jagt efter at indfri deres store ambitioner. Her påvirkes deres venskab af deres afhængighed og misbrug samt succes og stolthed over for hinanden, mens de knyttes sammen af deres hengivenhed til den intelligente og gådefulde Jude. Han bliver brillant en advokat, som i det skjulte er dybt skadet af sin opvækst blandt munke og deres seksuelle misbrug og mishandling af ham. Hanya Yanagiharas slog for alvor igennem på internationale litterære scene med "A Little Life", der på rørende vis er en fortælling om venskabets dybe kærlighed, og hvordan fortidens mørke traumer kan forme et helt liv.

"A Little Life" er historien om fire gode venner, der flytter til New York for at finde vej ind i voksenlivet. Uden en øre på lommen, drives studiekammeraterne frem af deres venskab og ambitioner. Skuespilleren Willem drømmer om scenen. Den hårdhudede og skarpe JB kæmper for at bryde igennem i kunstverdenen. Arkitekten Malcolm frustreres i sine forsøg på at skabe en karriere i et stort firma. Den talentfulde, fjerne Jude har lige fået sin advokatbestalling. Som årene går, farves deres forhold til hinanden af succes og stolthed, men også af den grummeste form for misbrug og overgreb. Selvom Jude med tiden skaber sig en uforlignelig karriere, gemmer der sig under den succesfulde overflade et nedbrudt menneske. Han hjemsøget af den barndom, han har brugt hele sit liv på at flygte fra og af de traumer, han frygter vil definere resten af hans liv. "A Little Life" er en formfuldendt og stærk roman skrevet af Hanya Yanagihara, der her har skabt et mesterligt portræt af hjertesorg og et mørkt indblik i overgrebets væsen

"A Little Life" er Hanya Yanagiharas uforglemmeligt mesterværk om venskabets ubrydelige bånd og et smertefuldt traume fra barndommen, der ekkoer langt ind i voksenlivet. I "A Little Life" følger vi fire studiekammerater, mens de fattige og forvirrede flytter til New York på jagt efter at indfri deres store ambitioner. Her påvirkes deres venskab af deres afhængighed og misbrug samt succes og stolthed over for hinanden, mens de knyttes sammen af deres hengivenhed til den intelligente og gådefulde Jude. Han bliver brillant en advokat, som i det skjulte er dybt skadet af sin opvækst blandt munke og deres seksuelle misbrug og mishandling af ham. Hanya Yanagiharas slog for alvor igennem på internationale litterære scene med "A Little Life", der på rørende vis er en fortælling om venskabets dybe kærlighed, og hvordan fortidens mørke traumer kan forme et helt liv.

"A Little Life" er historien om fire gode venner, der flytter til New York for at finde vej ind i voksenlivet. Uden en øre på lommen, drives studiekammeraterne frem af deres venskab og ambitioner. Skuespilleren Willem drømmer om scenen. Den hårdhudede og skarpe JB kæmper for at bryde igennem i kunstverdenen. Arkitekten Malcolm frustreres i sine forsøg på at skabe en karriere i et stort firma. Den talentfulde, fjerne Jude har lige fået sin advokatbestalling. Som årene går, farves deres forhold til hinanden af succes og stolthed, men også af den grummeste form for misbrug og overgreb. Selvom Jude med tiden skaber sig en uforlignelig karriere, gemmer der sig under den succesfulde overflade et nedbrudt menneske. Han hjemsøget af den barndom, han har brugt hele sit liv på at flygte fra og af de traumer, han frygter vil definere resten af hans liv. "A Little Life" er en formfuldendt og stærk roman skrevet af Hanya Yanagihara, der her har skabt et mesterligt portræt af hjertesorg og et mørkt indblik i overgrebets væsen

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 The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. 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.

'I promise you more patience, more gratitude. I promise you less vanity, less selfishness, less complaining, less fear. I promise you. You just have to survive.' A Little Life follows the complex relationships of four college friends in New York City: Willem, an actor; Malcolm, an architect; JB, an artist; and, at the centre of their group, Jude, a lawyer. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, changed by ambition, addiction and pride. Yet their greatest challenge is Jude himself, whose secrets – and shame – define not just his own life, but that of his friends as well. A bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life has sold over a million copies and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. The stage adaptation – conceived by Ivo van Hove, and adapted by Koen Tachelet, van Hove and Yanagihara herself – was first performed in a Dutch-language production at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 2018, before transferring to New York in 2022. This English-language version opened in London's West End in 2023, directed by Ivo van Hove and with a cast led by James Norton as Jude.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its readers. When four classmates 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 center 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. In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its readers. When four classmates 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 center 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. In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

The ultimate collector's edition and the perfect gift for fans of this modern classic. 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 This exclusive 10th anniversary edition of A Little Life features artwork by acclaimed artists RF. Alvarez and Linus Borgo, painted in response to the book, as well as a Q&A with the author Hanya Yanagihara. 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. 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

The ultimate collector's edition and the perfect gift for fans of this modern classic. 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 This exclusive 10th anniversary edition of A Little Life features artwork by acclaimed artists RF. Alvarez and Linus Borgo, painted in response to the book, as well as a Q&A with the author Hanya Yanagihara. 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. 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

'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 and The People in the Trees, 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

'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 and The People in the Trees, 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