![]() ![]() The novel begins when Jude and Willem move into a small, rundown apartment on Lispenard Street. ![]() 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. A Little Life brought me to tears more than once it is a book that asks the reader to feel as fully as Jude does, with a deep aesthetic and ethical purpose of. A Little Life follows its protagonist Jude and his close friends Willem, JB, and Malcolm over many years after they move to New York in search of fame, fortune, success, and meaning. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. 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. 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. ![]() The past torments him throughout the book due to which he fears any. Winner of Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards He has had a traumatic past where he was raped, sexually abused, and tortured even. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction ![]()
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