A Little Life

A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory. Over one million copies sold Too many broken hearts to count ‘A book unlike any other’ – The Guardian ‘This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship’ – Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem. Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem; the sardonic painter JB; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and Jude, brilliant and enigmatic – their centre of gravity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction