To paradise

Resumen del libro

From the author of the modern classic /b b i A Little Life /i /b b , 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. /b br br 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 scientists damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him and solve the mystery of her husbands disappearances. br br These three sections are joined in an enthralling and 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 cant 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. br br i To Paradise /i is a i fin /i - i de /i - i siecle /i novel of marvellous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius.

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>