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A Little Life
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' – Dua Lipa
The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.
Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize
Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction
When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome – but that will define his life forever.
'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind.' – The Times
Critic Reviews
"In person Yanagihara is breezily intellectual; all bright red lipstick, sparkly jewellery and cobalt-blue heels. And yet A Little Life has at its heart a darkness so profound you wonder both where it came from and how she mustered the courage to confront it…She is, she says, very much the sort of person who walks past strangely located doors or evocatively seedy windows and immediately wonders what lives exist behind them. For Yanagihara, you feel, they’re more likely to be damaged than not." (Alison Roberts, Evening Standard)
"The English language novel that affected me most this year. It’s long and unrelenting but completely compelling - and it tells you, as no other novel I know does, that there are harms and injuries in life from which no recovery is possible." (David Sexton, Evening Standard)
"Unlike anything I’ve read before." (Alex Preston, The Observer)
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- Chetan Vashisht
- 15-04-23
Can be nominated for the most depressing book ever
A long and difficult read. Reminds you how lucky you are, to have the life you have.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-11-23
You will cry!
a very sad fiction made real by the amazing voice of Oliver Wyman. this book cuts deep in your heart.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-02-23
Great book!
My first audiobook! What an experience listening to this book! The narrator did a great job and it is strange that now if I think of the story or the characters I will hear their voices
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- aparna adhav
- 16-12-20
Won't regret reading this
Such an amazing book ...I would not be able to articulate this properly but it just takes you to a different world,and the narration is splendid.
Please do listen or read this book it is worth your time.
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- Amit
- 06-04-22
Beautifully narration of a powerful and difficult book
The narrator did a beautiful job reading it. I couldn’t stop listening to it.
The story itself is so devastating, it broke my heart so many times.
Overall had an unforgettable experience listening to this. Thank you
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- Isha
- 05-05-22
Heartbreaking & Hopeful
I've cried & I've smiled countlessly at the courage this book represents. Of how swiftly it digs deeper into a person's life & unravel the darkness, the chaos, the past. I'm grateful that this book exists because I've felt so much of every emotion while listening to it.
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- M Prasad
- 22-08-20
A long emotional and heart wrenching novel
Never thought a book could make me feel so many things at once. A Little Life starts of slow with a story about 4 friends and goes on to focus on one of them. The details, the characters, the warmth, the feelings - everything is amazingly portrayed. It's gut wrnechingly painful and amazingly emotional. The narrator does an excellent job at conveying the feelings through his voice.
Hanya Yanagihara has showed how influencing childhood memories can be on an adult life. Must read for everyone
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- rishabh arora
- 13-09-21
you won't be the same after this book!!!
what an amazing tale of love friendships and life itself!
cried several times during the book...and I don't think so illl ever be able to get it out of my head!
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- A K.
- 23-07-20
heart wrenching and right in the feels!
read it with caution. It has a number of triggers and is sure to leave you heartbroken, yet fulfilled, if that makes any sense.
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- Shivam
- 28-07-19
Good read
'The Great Gay Novel'...
Strong contender of 'Most Depressing book ever written'...
A book on 'Broken and flawed characters'...
A book about 'Unforgiving life'...
800 pages of 'Relentlessly Sad monotonous storyline'...
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And I can't deny any of those accusations and allegations...
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It's gripping enough to keep your earphones plugged in 5 hours each day...
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Yes Jude St Francis is a broken character. Yes he is full of insecurities to the extent where it becomes annoying. But then you find out his history and the sympathy takes over that annoyance in a second...
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But to me, this book is about HOPE and GOODWILL. After each page, each chapter, you hope things will become normal... Things will turn out to be good. That there will be a happy ending.
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How much we humans long for 'Happy Endings'. We are all flawed in our own ways. We have our own set of insecurities... But as long as there's a Happy Ending, the charade was worth it.... For Jude St Francis. For us. For our lives...
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