{"product_id":"little-life-1","title":"Little Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's \u003ci\u003eA Little Life,\u003c\/i\u003e by the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Paradise,\u003c\/i\u003e is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the Women's Prize\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 And withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind.' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44354984411333,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5290-7721-6.jpg?v=1739486332","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/little-life-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}