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To Paradise Audiobook š§ by Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher's Summary
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ā¢ From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Lifeāa bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
To Paradise is a fin de siĆØcle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagiharaās understanding of the aching desire to protect those we loveāpartners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizensāand the pain that ensues when we cannot.
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientistās damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without himāand solve the mystery of her husbandās disappearances.
These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it canāt exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.
Ā©2021 Hanya Yanagihara (P)2021 Random House Audio
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To Paradise Audiobook š§ by Hanya Yanagihara