A Little Life : The 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of the Million Copy Bestseller

This stunning tenth anniversary edition of Yanagihara's modern classic about a quartet of graduates as they embrace the seemingly limitless possibilities of New York City futures boasts exquisite artwork by acclaimed artists RF. Alvarez and Linus Borgo and an exclusive Q&A with the author.

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.

This exclusive 10th anniversary edition features artwork by acclaimed artists RF. Alvarez and Linus Borgo, painted in response to the book, as well as a Q&A with the author.

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 And withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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.

MEDIA REVIEWS

A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind - The Times

A book unlike any other . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger - The Guardian

Exquisite . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship - The New Yorker

[A] wholly immersive unforgettable read . . . You won't stop reading. And it's a novel that changes you - Evening Standard

Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget - Daily Express

Hypnotic . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men - The Economist

A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable - The Independent

Piercing . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity - The Times Literary Supplement

Capacious and consuming . . . Immersive - The Boston Globe

Beautiful - Los Angeles TImes

Remarkable. . . . An epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured - The Wall Street Journal

Astonishing - The Atlantic

Deeply moving . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship - NPR

Affecting and transcendent - The Washington Post