A little life

ʼIʼm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. Itʼs one of those books that stays with you forever.ʼ - Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagiharaʼs A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Womenʼs Prize Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, theyʼre 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.