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Ils sont quatre amis de fac, et ils ont décidé de conquérir New-York : Willem, l'acteur à la beauté ravageuse ; JB, l'artiste peintre, aussi ambitieux et talentueux qu'il peut être cruel ;Malcolm, qui attend son heure dans un prestigieux cabinet d'architectes ; Jude, le plus mystérieux d'entre eux, celui qui, au fil des années, s'affirme comme le soleil noir de leur quatuor, celui autour duquel les relations s'approfondissent et se compliquent cependant que leurs vies professionnelles et sociales prennent de l'ampleur.
Épopée romanesque d'une incroyable intensité, chronique poignante de l'amitié masculine contemporaine, Une vie comme les autres interroge aussi nos dispositions à l'empathie et notre façon d'endurer la souffrance, la notre comme celle d'autrui.
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Vers le paradis
Hanya Yanagihara
- Grasset et fasquelle
- En Lettres D'ancre
- 7 Septembre 2022
- 9782246829331
Voici une fiction hors du commun qui se déploie sur trois siècles, de 1893 à 2093. Dans chacun des trois livres qui composent le roman, l'auteure évoque une Amérique différente pour imaginer ce que son pays aurait pu être, ce qu'il a été, et ce qu'il pourrait devenir. Des points communs entre ces sociétés subsistent, bien entendu : certains personnages détiennent le pouvoir, d'autres le subissent, et tous doivent décider ce qu'ils sont prêts à sacrifier pour leur liberté ou au contraire leur sécurité.
L'Amérique de 1893 dépeinte par Yanagihara n'est pas celle des livres d'Histoire. Ici, une scission définitive au sein des États-Unis a donné naissance aux États Libres au nord et aux Colonies dans le sud. Dans ce nouvel état du nord, le mariage entre personnes du même sexe a été promu, mais pas l'émancipation des esclaves. C'est dans cette société que le jeune héritier David Bingham, propriétaire d'une luxueuse demeure sur Washington Square, doit trancher entre un mariage arrangé avec Charles ou une passion à l'avenir incertain avec Edward.
Un siècle plus tard, d'autres personnages homonymes et vivant dans les mêmes lieux doivent faire des choix eux aussi. Pour le descendant de l'ancienne famille royale de l'archipel d'Hawaï, la sécurité et le confort d'une vie conventionnelle dans les beaux quartiers de New York peuvent-ils faire oublier le rêve de son père, celui d'une identité hawaïenne pure et originelle ?
La ville de New York ne sera plus la même au siècle suivant, en 2093, divisée en secteurs, quadrillée et surveillée par un régime devenu autoritaire après toute une série de pandémies qui a frappé le pays. Un homme portant lui aussi le nom de David Bingham a participé en tant que scientifique à l'élaboration de cette société répressive, dans le but de protéger la population de la maladie et la mort, mais ses derniers efforts seront consacrés à permettre à sa petite-fille Charlie de choisir la liberté...
La romancière américaine Hanya Yanagihara, auteure du livre culte Une vie comme les autres, parvient à embarquer le lecteur dans un voyage dans le temps qui impressionne par son originalité et son audace. Réécrire le passé et imaginer le futur, questionner nos ambiguïtés et nos obsessions, Yanagihara fait tout cela sans jamais oublier qu'elle est avant tout une formidable conteuse. Des personnages immédiatement attachants qui incarnent les besoins contradictoires de sécurité et de liberté traversent le roman de la première à la dernière page, suscitant notre empathie, nous tenant en haleine. -
B>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015./b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016./b>br>b>/b>b>Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015./b>br>b>/b>br>b>The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance./b>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.
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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2022 ''This magisterial follow-up to A Little Life offers three books in one . . . Yanagihara weighs up damage and privilege - social, emotional, political, colonial in a gripping, immersive ride through alternative Americas.'' - The Guardian ''Best Reads For Summer'' ''After the painfully affecting [ A Little Life ] To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. I''m not sure I''ve ever missed the world of a book as much as I miss To Paradise now I''ve left it . . . It''s rare that you get the opportunity to review a masterpiece, but To Paradise , definitively, is one. '' - The Observer ''Awe-inspiring . . . The characters are so well drawn and the plot so well paced, I couldn''t put it down.'' - Daily Telegraph From Hanya Yanagihara, author of the modern classic A Little Life , To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. 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. And in 2093, in a world riven 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 disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can''t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. To Paradise is a fin - de - siecle novel of marvellous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara''s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love - partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensues when we cannot.
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women''s Fiction 2016. Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. 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.
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The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself.Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in American fiction.
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B>2.500.000 DE LECTORES VOLVERÁN A EMOCIONARSE/b>br>br>b>NÚMERO UNO EN VENTAS EN THE NEW YORK TIMES/b>br>b>Tras Tan poca vida --«un fenómeno digno de estudio» (La Razón), Mejor Libro del Año según más de 15 medios--, la nueva novela de una autora «con una capacidad deslumbrante para atrapar desde las tripas en una lectura febril» (El Mundo)/b>br>br>b>UNO DE LOS LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE TELEGRAPH, THE DAILY MAIL, FINANTIAL TIMES Y THE IRISH TIMESbr>/b>br>b>«Al paraíso es tan buena como Guerra y paz». --Edmund Whitebr>br>/b>En una versión alternativa de la América de 1893, Nueva York forma parte de los Estados Libres, donde el matrimonio homosexual está permitido. Un muchacho de familia distinguida se debate entre casarse con un pretendiente elegido por su abuelo o escoger a un profesor de música con pocos recursos de quien está enamorado. En un Manhattan de 1993 asediado por «la enfermedad», un joven hawaiano vive con su pareja, cuya edad e ingresos superan con creces los suyos, y le oculta su infancia problemática y el destino de su padre. Y en 2093, en un mundo asolado por plagas y gobernado por un estado totalitario, un poderoso científico y su familia intentan encontrar las estrategias necesarias para sobrevivir sin perderse unos a otros por el camino.br>br>Como en una sinfonía fascinante e ingeniosa, estas tres partes conforman una novela monumental, histórica y distópica en la que el amor parece imposible y, sin embargo, los protagonistas, con sus limitaciones y secretos, se obstinan en buscarlo como único modo de llegar al paraíso.br>br>b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION/b>br>br>b>#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the author of the classic A Little Life--a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia./b>br>br>In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. 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. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientists damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him--and solve the mystery of her husbands disappearances.br> br>These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it cant exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.br> br>To Paradise is a findesiecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagiharas understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love--partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens--and the pain that ensues when we cannot.
