A Little Life
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A Little Life
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Narrated by:
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Matt Bomer
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By:
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Hanya Yanagihara
About this listen
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-2025
A Little Life. 6/5 ⭐ Stars
I read the book and audio at the same time, and it made it feel more real. This book has to be the most heartbreaking book I have ever read, it's full of despair, depression and sadness with some sprinkles of happy times. It is so beautifully written that it's almost like you've watched their whole lives like a movie and you have also lost them. I loved this book, but I feel it's also a book I wouldn't recommend to anyone it's that sad.
1 thing I would have liked more to read is if we got more of Jude’s life when he was in college with his friends, more so of how met and got along.
And as much as I loved this book I do not have it in me to ever read it again. 😭
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- Anonymous User
- 25-02-2025
The perfect meeting point of pain, love, trust and tragedy.
I’ve just finished A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (audio book read by Matt Bomer).
Man that was tough. What a beautifully written, tragically sad story. It will take me a while to process.
Highly recommended.
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- Ting
- 01-04-2025
Dreadful
Can’t finish it. Too long and too dreadful. It’s a female version of male stories. So much pain and no enjoyment. If you want to get depressed, you may like it.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-2025
Depressing drag
Just very long and depressing I enjoyed it at the beginning but by the end I found it to be dragging on.
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