2016 BOOKS OF THE YEAR FICTION 2016


BOOK OF THE YEAR FICTION


A LITTLE LIFE HANYA YANAGIHARA PICADOR


A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heart- breaking 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 are 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cruel Brooklyn- born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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 ad- diction, success and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realise, 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.


This was a magnificent piece of publishing, with a cleverly targeted campaign”


ALISON FINCH ASSISTANT PRODUCER, BBC RADIO 4


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