Bøger af Hanya Yanagihara

Fås i hardback-udgave, 9788740038309 Et lille liv er en af den slags romaner, der fortæller en menneskehistorie, man aldrig glemmer. Da fire studiekammerater flytter til New York for at finde vej ind i voksenlivet uden en klink på lommen, drives de frem af deres venskab og ambitioner. Willem drømmer om scenen, den hårdhudede, skarpe JB om et liv med billedkunst, Malcolm frustreres i sine forsøg på at skabe en karriere i et stort arkitektfirma, og den talentfulde, fjerne Jude, som lige har fået sin advokatbestalling, er gruppens centrum. Årene går, og deres forhold farves af både succes og stolthed, men også af den grelleste form for misbrug og overgreb. Langsomt samler fortællingen sig om Jude, der på en gang er en af New Yorks mest succesrige advokater og et nedbrudt menneske. Han hjemsøges af den barndom, han har brugt hele sit liv på at flygte fra, og hvis traumer, han frygter, vil definere ham for altid. Med formfuldendt, nærmest overdådig prosa har Hanya Yanagihara skabt et mesterligt portræt af hjertesorg og et mørkt indblik i overgrebets væsen.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times *; The Washington Post *; The Wall Street Journal *; NPR *; Vanity Fair *; Vogue *; Minneapolis Star Tribune *; St. Louis Post-Dispatch *; The Guardian *; O, The Oprah Magazine *; Slate *; Newsday *; Buzzfeed *; The Economist *; Newsweek *; People *; Kansas City Star *; Shelf Awareness *; Time Out New York *; Huffington Post *; Book Riot *; Refinery29 *; Bookpage *; Publishers Weekly *; KirkusWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEA MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA Little Life follows four college classmatesbroke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambitionas 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.

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, a novel of lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—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.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADSTo Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.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 scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an 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 can’t 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.

Året er 1893, og New York er en del af de Frie Stater, hvor man skal kunne elske hvem man vil. Men da en skrøbelig efterkommer af en fornem familie drages af en charmerende, fattig musiklærer, møder han modstand. På Manhattan i 1993, midt under AIDS-epidemien, bor en ung hawaiiansk mand sammen med sin ældre, rigere partner og er tvunget til at skjule sit barndomstraume. Og i 2093, i en totalitær verden plaget af sygdom, forsøger barnebarnet af en berømt forsker at løse mysteriet om sin mands forsvinden.Tre fortællinger samles i Til paradis i en medrivende symfoni, mens tilbagevendende temaer og motiver uddyber og beriger hinanden: Et rækkehus i Washington Square Park i Greenwich Village; pandemier og deres behandlinger; rigdom over for elendighed; længslen efter at finde et jordisk paradis, og den gradvise erkendelse af, at det ikke kan eksistere. Både romanens figurer og bogens Amerika forenes i et opgør med de egenskaber, der gør os til mennesker: Frygt, kærlighed, skam, nød og ensomhed.Til paradis er en fin de siècle-roman om det amerikanske eksperiment, en mesterligt orkestreret fortælling om vores behov for at beskytte dem, vi elsker, og den smerte vi føler, når vi ikke kan.

Folket i træerne er Hanya Yanagiharas første roman, som hun skrev inden sin internationale kæmpesucces Et lille liv. Året er 1950, og en ung læge ved navn Norton Perina er ved at forberede sig til en ekspedition til en fjern ø i Mikronesien, Ivu’iyu, på jagt efter en sagnomspunden, forsvundet stamme. Sammen med antropologen Paul Tallent drager han af sted og lykkes med sin mission; han finder ikke bare stammen, men også en anden gruppe mennesker som bor i skoven og virker til at opnå meget høje levealdre. Perina mistænker at kilden til hvad der næsten ligner evigt liv er kødet fra en bestemt skildpaddeart, og han er ude af stand til at modstå den fristelse det er at slå en ihjel og smugle en smule af kødet med tilbage til USA. Han er i stand til videnskabeligt at bevise sin tese, hvilket gør ham berømt verden over, men han opdager snart at prisen for opdagelsen er høj og frygtelig. Folket i træerne er baseret på den virkelige historie om nobelpristager Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek og er en tindrende mørk, modig fortælling om magt, magtmisbrug og menneskeligt begær i alle dets former.

The brilliant and strikingly original first novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that is A Little Life.

"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 scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearances. These three sections comprise an 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 can't 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."--Amazon.com.

BESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES - FINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FINALISTA DEL MAN BOOKER PRIZE - GANADOR DEL KIRKUS PRIZE - UNA SENSACIÓN VIRAL EN BOOKTOK Una novela que sigue el hilo de la gran literatura norteamericana y que ha llegado para dar un nuevo sentido al silencio y un nuevo valor a las emociones. La novela que hay que leer. Para descubrir... Qué dicen y qué callan los hombres. De dónde viene y dónde va la culpa. Cuánto importa el sexo. A quien podemos llamar amigo. Y finalmente... Qué precio tiene la vida y cuándo deja de tener valor.Para descubrir eso y más, aquí está Tan poca vida, una historia que recorre más de tres décadas de amistad en la vida de cuatro hombres que crecen juntos en Manhattan. Cuatro hombres que tienen que sobrevivir al fracaso y al éxito y que, a lo largo de los años, aprenden a sobreponerse a las crisis económicas, sociales y emocionales. Cuatro hombres que comparten una idea muy peculiar de la intimidad, una manera de estar juntos hecha de pocas palabras y muchos gestos. Cuatro hombres cuya relación la autora utiliza para realizar una minuciosa indagación de los límites de la naturaleza humana. Tan poca vida se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno literario, un éxito sin precedentes en las redes sociales que ha sido unánimemente aclamado por la crítica y los lectores. Hanya Yanagihara, su autora, ha sido comparada con Jonathan Franzen y Donna Tartt por su capacidad para describir con maestría la psicología de personajes complejos y hallar en el camino respuesta a cuestiones universales. Una nueva y joven voz literaria que ha llegado para quedarse. Mejor novela del año según 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, Kirkus Review, entre otras. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR, according to: The New York Times-; The Washington Post-; The Wall Street Journal-; NPR-; Vanity Fair-; Vogue-; Minneapolis Star Tribune-; St. Louis Post-Dispatch-; The Guardian-;O, The Oprah Magazine-; Slate-; Newsday-; Buzzfeed-; The Economist-; Newsweek-;People-; Kansas City Star-; Shelf Awareness-; Time Out New York-; Huffington Post-; Book Riot-; Refinery29-; Bookpage-; Publishers Weekly-; Kirkus Review WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEA MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST>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.