The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller and one of Barack Obama's
Favorite Books of 2022. From Hanya Yanagihara, author of the modern
classic A Little Life, To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel
spanning three centuries and three different versions of the
American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive
promise of utopia. 'Three stories far apart in space and time but
each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of
love, the pain of loss . . . It's rare that you get the opportunity
to review a masterpiece, but To Paradise, definitively, is one.' -
The Observer 'Awe-inspiring . . . The characters are so well drawn
and the plot so well paced, I couldn't put it down.' - Daily
Telegraph 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 scientist's damaged granddaughter
tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her
husband's disappearances. These three sections are joined in an
enthralling and 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 can't 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. To Paradise is a
fin-de-siecle novel of marvellous literary effect, but above all it
is a work of emotional genius. The power of this novel is driven by
Yanagihara's understanding of the aching desire to protect those we
love - partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our
fellow citizens - and the pain that ensues when we cannot. 'This
magisterial follow-up to A Little Life offers three books in one .
. . Yanagihara weighs up damage and privilege - social, emotional,
political, colonial in a gripping, immersive ride through
alternative Americas.' - The Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer'
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