To Paradise ⁽ᴴᵃʳᵈᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ ᴮᴼᴼᴷ⁾ by Hanya Yanagihara

To Paradise (Hardcover)

A bold, beautiful novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss, and the elusive promise of utopia, from the author of the classic A Little Life.

New York is part of the Free States in an alternate version of 1893 America, where people can live and love whomever they want (or so it seems). The frail young scion of a prestigious family refuses to be betrothed to a deserving suitor, instead falling in love with an attractive music teacher of little means. A young Hawaiian guy lives with his much older, wealthier girlfriend in a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS pandemic, concealing his traumatic past and the fate of his father. In 2093, a powerful scientist's traumatized granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and unravel the mystery of her husband's disappearance—in a society ravaged by plagues and ruled by a totalitarian government.

As repeating notes and motifs expand and enrich one another, these three pieces are united in a fascinating and clever symphony: A townhouse in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park; illness and exorbitant treatments; wealth and squalor; the strong and the weak; race; the definition of family and nationhood; the powerful's dangerous righteousness and revolutionaries' longing for an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it cannot exist. Not only the characters, but the Americas as a whole, are united by their reckonings with the attributes that make us human: Fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness are among the emotions that people experience.

To Paradise is a magnificent literary fin de siecle novel, but it is also a work of emotional genius. Yanagihara's awareness of the painful desire to protect people we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the sorrow that occurs when we can't is at the heart of this wonderful work.

Product details: To Paradise

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Language : English
ISBN : 0385547935
ISBN-13 : 9780385547932
Number of pages : 720 pages
Publisher : Doubleday
Date of Publication : January 11, 2022

About the authors: Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara is a Japanese writer who lives in New York City.

http://instagram.com/hanyayanagihara

https://instagram.com/alittlelifebook

Reviews: To Paradise

"A remarkable story richly imagined and deeply touching." --The Bookseller (London)

A trilogy of novels set in 1893, 1993, and 2093 investigates humanity's fate, the inherent power and pain of love, and the unique doom of the United States.
Yanagihara's follow-up to her Kirkus Prize-winning second novel, A Little Life (2015), has been keenly anticipated since its publication. While it is unlike either of her earlier books, it is also unlike anything else you've read (though Cloud Atlas, The House of Mirth, Martin and John, and Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy may all come to mind). The book, which is more than 700 pages long, is divided into three sections, each with its tale set in a different historical iteration of the United States. The setting and themes bind the stories together. A residence on Washington Square in Greenwich Village is crucial to both, and Hawaii is mentioned frequently, most notably in the second. In each narrative, the same names are given to quite different people; almost all are gay, and many are married. Even in the Edith Wharton-Esque opening scenario, in which a wealthy family scion is torn between an arranged marriage and a dangerous romance, both of his potential partners are men. Illness and infirmity are central themes in each, with the third featuring the most vivid depiction of a post-pandemic totalitarian dystopia. Here's the only plot tie we could come up with: In the third section, a character recalls hearing a narrative that follows the same plot as the first. She laments the fact that she was never told the full story: "I was left wondering what had transpired after all these years." I knew it was silly because they weren't even actual people, yet I kept thinking about them. I was curious as to what had happened to them. " You'll understand what she's going through. But what does Yanagihara's acknowledgment imply? That is only one of the enigmas that will elicit years of debate and speculation. Another question is why the book isn't titled "To Hell," given the gut-punch of complete sorrow one feels when all the most cherished parts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century existence are abruptly swept off the stage when the page turns to the twenty-first?
It was huge, bizarre, beautiful, terrible and full of mystery. --Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"TO PARADISE by Hanya Yanagihara is on par with WAR AND PEACE." -- Edmund White

"TO PARADISE is a magnificent, visionary story with incredible scope and depth." A story with so many layers, so much depth, so much relevance, so much of the joys and terrors—the pure mystery—of human life is not merely uncommon, but revolutionary. " -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS

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