![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to the author's exquisite skill, you feel as if you are living them. You don't just care deeply about all these lives. plumbs the rich inner lives of all of her characters. How often is a novel so deeply disturbing that you might find yourself weeping, and yet so revelatory about human kindness that you might also feel touched by grace? Yanagihara's astonishing and unsettling second novel. Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured. announces her, as decisively as a second work can, as a major American novelist. One of the pleasures of fiction is how suddenly a brilliant writer can alter the literary landscape. An astonishing achievement: a novel of grand drama and sentiment, but it's a canvas Yanagihara has painted with delicate, subtle brushstrokes. Fiona Wilson ? The TimesĪ Little Life makes for near-hypnotically compelling reading, a vivid, hyperreal portrait of human existence that demands intense emotional investment. ![]() It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind. ![]()
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