For others, Yanagihara novels can feel unsettlingly voyeuristic. Fans describe sobbing through A Little Life, emerging days later feeling tear-stained and fundamentally changed. It is never so alive as a book as when its characters are in deep pain.įor some readers, Yanagihara novels make for a profoundly moving and emotional reading experience. Likewise, To Paradise luxuriates in long descriptions of abusive relationships and profound depressions and dystopian deprivations. A Little Life is filled with exquisite, loving descriptions of the tormented life of her protagonist, including the violent abuse he experiences as a small child. So, too, is her evocation of her favorite subject: human suffering. The current fashion is for sentences so dry they rasp, but Yanagihara’s prose is rich and sumptuous. Yanagihara is an unusual figure in America’s literary scene. And like its predecessor, To Paradise has arrived to both rapturous praise and furious debate. Hanya Yanagihara, the author of the much-beloved and much-debated 2015 novel A Little Life, has now released her third novel, To Paradise. One of the most talked-about new books of this January is also one of the oddest.
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