To Paradise

To Paradise

by Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise

To Paradise

by Hanya Yanagihara

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Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life remains a customer favorite and our favorite since its release in 2015. In fact, we see it moving faster now than ever before. It is a modern classic, and we are so happy to share Yanagihara's latest with you — To Paradise. The writing will make your heart ache and head spin, as all modern classics are wont to do.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—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.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE ESQUIRE NPR • GOODREADS


To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous 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.

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 comprise an 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780385547932
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Pages: 720
Sales rank: 548,555
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Hanya Yanagihara lives in New York City.
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