Ils sont quatre amis de fac, et ils ont décidé de conquérir New-York : Willem, l'acteur à la beauté ravageuse ; JB, l'artiste peintre, aussi ambitieux et talentueux qu'il peut être cruel ;Malcolm, qui attend son heure dans un prestigieux cabinet d'architectes ; Jude, le plus mystérieux d'entre eux, celui qui, au fil des années, s'affirme comme le soleil noir de leur quatuor, celui autour duquel les relations s'approfondissent et se compliquent cependant que leurs vies professionnelles et sociales prennent de l'ampleur.Épopée romanesque d'une incroyable intensité, chronique poignante de l'amitié masculine contemporaine, Une vie comme les autres interroge aussi nos dispositions à l'empathie et notre façon d'endurer la souffrance, la notre comme celle d'autrui.Un roman terrible, douloureusement magnifique. Le Monde des livres.Des personnages inoubliables. Le Figaro littéraire.D'une rare intensité émotionnelle. Lire.Roman traduit de l'anglais(États-Unis) par Emmanuelle Ertel.
Une maison de ville à Washington Square, trois siècles, trois destins. Les échos et résonances entre ces trois histoires enrichissent un roman qui devient une symphonie bouleversante. La maladie et le prix à payer pour s'en protéger, la droiture des puissants et celle des révolutionnaires, l'aspiration à trouver un paradis terrestre et la prise de conscience qu'il n'existe pas - voilà quelques-uns des thèmes qui traversent ce grand roman, d'une puissance rare. Vers le paradis est porté par l'empathie exceptionnelle de Hanya Yanagihara pour ses personnages, ces êtres frappés par la douleur et mus par le désir brûlant de protéger ceux qu'ils aiment.
Parce qu'ils dépeignent sans fard les multiples tableaux de la souffrance humaine, les ouvrages de Hanya Yanagihara permettent une expérience de lecture qui bouleverse et dessille. Une voix puissamment originale. Laëtitia Favro, Lire magazine.
Une splendeur. Clémentine Goldszal, Elle.
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Marc Amfreville.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 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 WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 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 Yanagiharas stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2022 ''This magisterial follow-up to A Little Life offers three books in one . . . Yanagihara weighs up damage and privilege - social, emotional, political, colonial in a gripping, immersive ride through alternative Americas.'' - The Guardian ''Best Reads For Summer'' ''After the painfully affecting [ A Little Life ] To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. I''m not sure I''ve ever missed the world of a book as much as I miss To Paradise now I''ve left it . . . It''s rare that you get the opportunity to review a masterpiece, but To Paradise , definitively, is one. '' - The Observer ''Awe-inspiring . . . The characters are so well drawn and the plot so well paced, I couldn''t put it down.'' - Daily Telegraph From Hanya Yanagihara, author of the modern classic A Little Life , To Paradise is 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. 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 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 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. To Paradise is a fin - de - siecle novel of marvellous 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.
A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life
''The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.'' - The Times
In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself.
Hanya Yanagihara''s The People in the Trees marked the debut of a remarkable voice in American fiction.
