A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, …
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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trade paperback, 816 Seiten
Sprache: English
Veröffentlicht von Anchor Books, Doubleday.
Die ganzen Lobeshymnen und die Verheißungen, wie dieses Buch auf einen wirken soll, sind mir schleierhaft. Es hätte gewiss Potenzial gehabt, doch fand ich es trotz einiger guter Stellen über sehr, sehr weite Teile dermaßen langatmig, dass ich weder in die Handlung recht eintauchen oder eine Beziehung zu den Figuren aufbauen konnte. Ich habe irgendwann teilweise nur noch überflogen.
