A Little Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
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WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition-as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara's stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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1The eleventh apartment had only one closet, but it did have a sliding glass door that opened onto a small balcony, from which he could see a man sitting across the way, outdoors in only a T-shirt and shorts even though it was October, smoking. Willem held up a hand in greeting to him, but the man didn t wave back.
In the bedroom, Jude was accordioning the closet door, opening and shutting it, when Willem came in. There s only one closet, he said.
That s okay, Willem said. I have nothing to put in it anyway.
Neither do I. They smiled at each other. The agent from the building wandered in after them. We ll take it, Jude told her.
But back at the agent s office, they were told they couldn t rent the apartment after all. Why not? Jude asked her.
You don t make enough to cover six months rent, and you don t have anything in savings, said the agent, suddenly terse. She had checked their credit and their bank accounts and had at last realized that there was something amiss about two men in their twenties who were not a couple and yet were trying to rent a one-bedroom apartment on a dull (but still expensive) stretch of Twenty-fifth Street. Do you have anyone who can sign on as your guarantor? A boss? Parents?
Our parents are dead, said Willem, swiftly.
The agent sighed. Then I suggest you lower your expectations. No one who manages a well-run building is going to rent to candidates with your financial profile. And then she stood, with an air of finality, and looked pointedly at the door.
When they told JB and Malcolm this, however, they made it into a comedy: the apartment floor became tattooed with mouse droppings, the man across the way had almost exposed himself, the agent was upset because she had been flirting with Willem and he hadn t reciprocated.
Who wants to live on Twenty-fifth and Second anyway, asked JB. They were at Pho Viet Huong in Chinatown, where they met twice a month for dinner. Pho Viet Huong wasn t very good--the
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pho was curiously sugary, the lime juice was soapy, and at least one of them got sick after every meal--but they kept coming, both out of habit and necessity. You could get a bowl of soup or a sandwich at Pho Viet Huong for five dollars, or you could get an entrée, which were eight to ten dollars but much larger, so you could save half of it for the next day or for a snack later that night. Only Malcolm never ate the whole of his entrée and never saved the other half either, and when he was finished eating, he put his plate in the center of the table so Willem and JB--who were always hungry--could eat the rest.
Of course we don t want to live at Twenty-fifth and Second, JB, said Willem, patiently, but we don t really have a choice. We don t have any money, remember?
I don t understand why you don t stay where you are, said Malcolm, who was now pushing his mushrooms and tofu--he always ordered the same dish: oyster mushrooms and braised tofu in a treacly brown sauce--around his plate, as Willem and JB eyed it.
Well, I can t, Willem said. Remember? He had to have explained this to Malcolm a dozen times in the last three months. Merritt s boyfriend s moving in, so I have to move out.
But why do you have to move out?
Because it s Merritt s name on the lease, Malcolm! said JB.
Oh, Malcolm said. He was quiet. He often forgot what he considered inconsequential details, but he also never seemed to mind when people grew impatient with him for forgetting. Right. He moved the
Of course we don t want to live at Twenty-fifth and Second, JB, said Willem, patiently, but we don t really have a choice. We don t have any money, remember?
I don t understand why you don t stay where you are, said Malcolm, who was now pushing his mushrooms and tofu--he always ordered the same dish: oyster mushrooms and braised tofu in a treacly brown sauce--around his plate, as Willem and JB eyed it.
Well, I can t, Willem said. Remember? He had to have explained this to Malcolm a dozen times in the last three months. Merritt s boyfriend s moving in, so I have to move out.
But why do you have to move out?
Because it s Merritt s name on the lease, Malcolm! said JB.
Oh, Malcolm said. He was quiet. He often forgot what he considered inconsequential details, but he also never seemed to mind when people grew impatient with him for forgetting. Right. He moved the
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Hanya Yanagihara
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- Autor: Hanya Yanagihara
- 2016, 832 Seiten, Maße: 20,3 x 13,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Anchor Books
- ISBN-10: 0804172706
- ISBN-13: 9780804172707
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.01.2016
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Englisch
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal NPR Vanity Fair Vogue Minneapolis Star Tribune St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Guardian O, The Oprah Magazine Slate Newsday Buzzfeed The Economist Newsweek People Kansas City Star Shelf Awareness Time Out New York Huffington Post Book Riot Refinery29 Bookpage Publishers Weekly KirkusAstonishing. The Atlantic
Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship. NPR
Elemental, irreducible. The New Yorker
Hypnotic. . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men. The Economist
Capacious and consuming. . . . Immersive. The Boston Globe
Beautiful. Los Angeles Times
Exquisite. . . . It s not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork if anything that word is simply just too little for it. San Francisco Chronicle
Remarkable. . . . 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. . . . A Little Life announces [Yanagihara] as a major American novelist. The Wall Street Journal
Utterly gripping. Wonderfully romantic and sometimes harrowing, A Little Life kept me reading late into the night, night after night. Edmund White
Spellbinding . . . . An exquisitely written, complex triumph. O, The Oprah Magazine
Drawn in extraordinary detail by incantatory prose. . . . Affecting and transcendent. The Washington Post
[A Little Life] lands with a real sense of occasion: the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. . . . Yanagihara s achievement has less to do with size . . . than with the breadth and depth of its considerable power, which speaks not to the indomitability of the spirit,
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but to the fragility of the self. Vogue
Exquisite. . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship. The New Yorker
A book unlike any other. . . . A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life. . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch s, a few sizes larger. The Guardian
Exceedingly good. Newsweek
A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable. The Independent
Piercing. . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity. The Times Literary Supplement
A brave novel. . . . Impressive and moving. Literary Review
Enthralling and completely immersive. . . . Stunning. Daily News
Exquisite. . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship. The New Yorker
A book unlike any other. . . . A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life. . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch s, a few sizes larger. The Guardian
Exceedingly good. Newsweek
A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable. The Independent
Piercing. . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity. The Times Literary Supplement
A brave novel. . . . Impressive and moving. Literary Review
Enthralling and completely immersive. . . . Stunning. Daily News
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