Description
| Product ID: | 9781529077490 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | To Paradise |
| Authors: | Author: Hanya Yanagihara |
| Page Count: | 736 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The eagerly anticipated novel from Hanya Yanagihara, a brilliant exploration of inclusion and exclusion, race and empire, sexuality and disease, love and family. <p><b>The No. 1 <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller from the author of <i>A Little Life</i><br><br>'I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much' –</b><b> <i>The </i><i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b><i>To Paradise</i> is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya Yanagihara’s understanding of our desire to protect those we love – lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens – and the pain that ensues when we cannot.</b><br><br>In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love as they please (or so it seems).<br><br>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.<br><br>In 2093, in a world torn apart 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 disappearance.<br><br>What unites these characters, and these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human – fear, love, shame, loneliness – and the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise.<br><br><b>‘Not only rare . . . revolutionary’ –</b><b> Michael Cunningham, author of <i>The Hours</i><br><br>‘Prepare to weep in public and be utterly transformed’ – <i>Stylist</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-05 |