![]() Likewise, To Paradise luxuriates in long descriptions of abusive relationships and profound depressions and dystopian deprivations. A Little Life is filled with exquisite, loving descriptions of the tormented life of her protagonist, including the violent abuse he experiences as a small child. So, too, is her evocation of her favorite subject: human suffering. The current fashion is for sentences so dry they rasp, but Yanagihara’s prose is rich and sumptuous. ![]() Yanagihara is an unusual figure in America’s literary scene. And like its predecessor, To Paradise has arrived to both rapturous praise and furious debate. ![]() Hanya Yanagihara, the author of the much-beloved and much-debated 2015 novel A Little Life, has now released her third novel, To Paradise. One of the most talked-about new books of this January is also one of the oddest. ![]()
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