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A Little Life

The million-copy bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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A Little Life

Written by: Hanya Yanagihara
Narrated by: Matt Bomer
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Matt Bomer's heart-rending narration in this new audiobook edition offers a fresh and poignant listening experience of Hanya Yanagihara's timeless modern classic. Perfect if you're an A Little Life fan or a new listener.

'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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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

Read by Golden Globe winner and star of Fellow Travellers, Matt Bomer.

'Matt Bomer’s narration brings a steady and thoughtful presence to an emotionally intense novel . . . His ability to balance the novel’s dark themes with its moments of warmth ensures a compelling listening experience' – AudioFile Magazine

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Critic Reviews

A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind
A book unlike any other . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger
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
[A] wholly immersive unforgettable read . . . You won't stop reading. And it's a novel that changes you
Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget
Hypnotic . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men
A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable
Piercing . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity
Capacious and consuming . . . Immersive
Beautiful
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
Astonishing
Deeply moving . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship
Affecting and transcendent
All stars
Most relevant
Matt Bomer was amazing.
The story was quite depressing 😭 but quite moving too.
Hanya Yanagihara was just torturing us.

Willem❤️Jude❤️😭Andy❤️Harold❤️

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The book is so good, such a beautiful book that anyone shouldn't miss and the narration is cherry on top which will leave you sobbing

An excellent story with an excellent narration

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A story of life and its defiance of death. Of a sapling that is struggling to bloom in a cruel desert.

The incredible story

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This one hit me hard, really hard. It made me appreciate life a little more, but also made me realize that everyone around me has a ongoing story. And though I may not know their complete story, I'll try to make the current chapter a good one... For that's really all one can do.

My only dislike was the transition from one chapter to the next. I could barely tell when one ended and the other began in the early chapters.

A Melancholic Tale

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I picked up this book expecting nothing and the summary before listening it didn't help at all.
"A book on friendship between 4 guys? What can or should I expect? Some mischievous adventure or the boring pathway in which they all grow up, get married, have kids and die old?"
I was NOT prepared for anything this book had to offer. The situations of the characters along with their emotions have been described excellently in this book. This book is a MASTERPIECE.

Note: This book starts out slow and boring, hang in there because you will need it for the rollercoaster of emotions later. You will appreciate Hanya for providing so much detail in her story.

MILD SPOILERS:
From this book you can expect: Unwavering Friendship, Platonic Love, Self harm, Suicide, Death, S*x trafficking, Depression.

This book broke me

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