A Little Life

Resumen del libro

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016 Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015 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, 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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.

Biografía del autor

P B Hanya Yanagihara /B nació en 1974 en Los Ángeles, California. Tras graduarse en el Smith College en 1995, se mudó a Nueva York para trabajar como publicista y en 2017 se convirtió en la directora de la célebre revista I T /I , el suplemento de moda de I The New York Times /I . En 2015 publicó I Tan poca vida /I (Lumen, 2016), la novela con la que alcanzó el éxito internacional. Publicada en veinticinco países, fue nominada al Man Booker Prize y al National Book Award, elegida mejor novela del año por I The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly /I y I Kirkus Reviews /I , entre otros medios, y ha conquistado a más de dos millones y medio de lectores. I La gente en los árboles /I (Lumen, 2018) fue su primera novela, considerada una de las mejores de 2013 y la que distinguió a Yanagihara como una joven promesa en el mundo literario. Su última novela es I Al paraíso /I (Lumen, 2022).<br>