A Little Life
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

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A Little Life

Author: Hanya Yanagihara

Published: 2022

Pages: 720 pages

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Language: en

Catagories: Fiction / GeneralFiction / LGBTQ+ / GayFiction / LiteraryFiction / Coming of AgeFiction / Family Life / GeneralFiction / Urban & Street LitFiction / City LifeFiction / Friendship

Over one million copies sold
Too many broken hearts to count

'A book unlike any other' The Guardian
'This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship' 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.


JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem.
Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem; the sardonic painter JB; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and Jude, brilliant and enigmatic - their centre of gravity.

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

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.