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.
