NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE * A VIRAL SENSATION ON BOOKTOK

A novel that follows the thread of great North American literature and has arrived to give new meaning to silence and new value to emotions.

The novel you have to read. To discover... What men say and what they keep silent. Where guilt comes from and where it goes. How much sex matters. Whom we can call a friend. And finally... What price life has and when it ceases to have value.

To discover that and more, here is Tan poca vida, a story spanning more than three decades of friendship in the lives of four men who grow up together in Manhattan. Four men who have to survive failure and success and who, over the years, learn to overcome economic, social, and emotional crises. Four men who share a very particular idea of intimacy, a way of being together made up of few words and many gestures. Four men whose relationship the author uses to carry out a meticulous inquiry into the limits of human nature.

Tan poca vida has become a true literary phenomenon, an unprecedented success on social media that has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and readers. Hanya Yanagihara, its author, has been compared to Jonathan Franzen and Donna Tartt for her ability to masterfully describe the psychology of complex characters and, along the way, find answers to universal questions. A new, young literary voice that is here to stay.

Best novel of the year according to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, among others.

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR, according to:

The New York Times*; The Washington Post*; The Wall Street Journal*; NPR*; Vanity Fair*; Vogue*; Minneapolis Star Tribune*; St. Louis Post-Dispatch*; The Guardian*;O, The Oprah Magazine*; Slate*; Newsday*; Buzzfeed*; The Economist*; Newsweek*;People*; Kansas City Star*; Shelf Awareness*; Time Out New York*; Huffington Post*; Book Riot*; Refinery29*; Bookpage*; Publishers Weekly*; Kirkus Review

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A VIRAL SENSATION ON BOOKTOK

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement--and a great gift for its readers.

When four classmates 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 center 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.

In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.