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Hanya Yanagihara was born in Los Angeles in year 1975. Her father, Ronald Yanagihara, is from Hawaii and her mother was born in the Seoul city. Yanagihara is of partial Japanese descent through her father. As a child, Hanya Yanagihara moved frequently with her family, living in Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California, and Texas. She attended the Punahou High School in the Hawaii.

Yanagihara has said that when she was a child, her father introduced her to the work of Philip Roth and “British writers of a certain age” such as the Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch and Barbara Pym. Of Pym and Brookner she says, “There’s a suspicion of the craft that male writers of her generation didn’t have, a metaphysical calculus of what she really does for the world.” She has said that “the contemporary writers I most admire are the Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and John Banville.”

After graduating from the Smith College in 1995, Yanagihara moved to New York and worked as a publicist for several of years. She wrote and was an editor for the Condé Nast Traveler.

Her first novel The People in the Trees, based in part on the true-life case of virologist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, was hailed as one of best novels of year 2013.

Yanagihara’s A Little Life was released in March year 2015 to critical acclaim. The book was shortlisted for 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and even won 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Yanagihara was also selected as a finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards for Fiction. A Little Life defied the expectations of its publisher, the agent of Yanagihara and the author herself that it would not sell well.

Yanagihara described writing the book at its best as “superb as surfing; It felt like something I couldn’t summon but was lucky enough to have caught, if only for a moment, was taking me up in the air. At worst, I felt like I had lost ownership of the book. Oddly enough, I felt like I was one of those people who adopt a tiger or lion when the cat is a cuddly, tractable baby, then look on in dismay and amazement when it turns them on as adults. .

In 2015, she left Condé Nast to become associate editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She said that after the release of the bestseller A Little Life, the publishing industry was stunned by her decision to take a job at T,” she said, “I got these sneaky comments like, ‘Oh, I never thought there were words worth pity'”. reading [in T Magazine] there'”. Of her work as an editor and fiction writer, she says, “I’ve never done it any other way.” In 2017 she became editor-in-chief of T.

Yanagihara’s third novel To Paradise was published in January 2022.

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In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people can live and love whoever they want (or so it seems). The frail young scion of a respected family is reluctant to commit to a worthy suitor who finds himself attracted to a charming penniless music teacher.

In Manhattan ravaged by 1993 AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older and wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in the year 2093, in a plague-ravaged, totalitarian regime, the aggrieved granddaughter of a powerful scientist attempts to carry on with her life without him and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearance.

These three sections blend into a compelling and witty symphony as the notes and recurring themes deepen and enrich: a row house in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; diseases and treatments that have a terrible cost; wealth and misery; the weak and the strong; Run; the definition of family and nation; the dangerous justice of the powerful and of the revolutionaries; the longing for a place in an earthly paradise and the gradual realization that this cannot exist. What unites not only the characters, but these Americas, is their reckoning with the traits that make us human: fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

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To Paradise consists of three books, each set in a different America a hundred years apart: 1893, 1993 and 2093, respectively. While the stories themselves vary from generation to generation, the central themes and motifs transcend their time and context: what does it mean to love and be loved? Who tells our story, decides what will be our legacy? Who will be part of this story? What actually is freedom?

Much of the narrative is accomplished through introspection, which provides not only the context of the story but also the emotional implications of each character’s story and of American history as a whole. It’s one thing to build three different Americas, three different histories; Another is to achieve this through the characters’ eyes. Through introspection, the characters question their own history and their own choices, but more generally how we ended up where we are socially.

Each story is bursting with beautiful passages – I can’t get over their emotional and intellectual writing! I especially loved the final passages in each book – exploring what paradise really is, how it differs for each character, and how paradise itself is only accessible to a select few. I couldn’t have imagined a more moving ending for each story.

“What if this was heaven? would you know if it would be like this Maybe not. But he knew he hadn’t come from there: that was someone else’s heaven, but it wasn’t his. His was in a different place, but it didn’t appear in front of him; rather it would be yours to find it.

Wasn’t it really what he had been taught that he had hoped for all his life? Now it was time to search. Now it was time to be bold. Now he has to go alone. So he would stay here a moment longer, a bag of lead in his hand, and then he would take a breath, and then he would take his first step: his first step into a new life; his first step: to paradise.

After reading the previous two novels by Hanya Yanagihara, I immersed myself in To Paradise and knew two things; 1) that his books have many pages and 2) that his writing is so “readable” that they fly past him. To me, To Paradise is absolutely gorgeous, but I hope it gets the usual 5 and 1 star ratings because Yanagihara is always complex and controversial and I love it.

I won’t bury the lede: It’s Book III: “Zone Eight”, that’s the masterpiece here. It’s instantly engaging, impactful, and immensely unique. Although the three books are linked by themes (family, plagues, power, the quest for “paradise” and what constitutes “America”) and common character names (David, Charles, Edward), there is no need to read the first two books to get an absolute WALLOP of “Zone Eight”.

Set in New York City in 2093, Zone Eight is VERY dystopian! And VERY relevant! If you’re worried about the worst-case scenario of climate change devastation and the emergence of new, more deadly viruses, and/or if you’re worried about the world becoming more authoritarian and the country becoming a “prison state”: fine. , this section will scare you both ways!

Pandemics are coming at a rapid pace, and the United States has closed borders and isolated groups of people. The government decides where you live, what your work will be, and even what books you can read. Riots are put down with punishments that last for generations. When an area becomes infected, everyone is forcibly sent to “quarantine camps”; from there there is a mass cremation.

I read this section in mid-April 2022 when the news showed images of China’s draconian COVID-19 lockdowns. Verified video aired in Shanghai of people locked in their homes screaming out windows at night, babies being separated from their parents and rioters looking for food claiming the government was starving them. The US State Department had ordered the Americans to withdraw.
A believable dystopian novel describes a world that is easy to imagine. Yanagihara gave us one that is happening now.

Those who, like me, loved Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” and fell in love with Jude will likely fall in love with Charlie in Book III. Charlie is a young woman who survived the virus but changed profoundly. His story is so captivating and exciting that as I read each page I was ALMOST afraid to move on to the next! I think like jude, charlie will live with me forever.

The novel is divided into three sections, told centuries apart and set in 1893, 1993, and 2093, and they are linked not only by the setting, a Washington Square brownstone, but also by recurring themes, character types, and conflicts.

In 1893, in an alternate history, New York is part of the Free States. Same-sex marriage is legal, even the norm, but unions are formed on the basis of political and financial alliances, not love. One of the city’s most prominent men tries to find a husband for his grandson David, only for the wealthy offspring to be tempted by an impoverished piano teacher with a suspicious past.

Book two is set during the AIDS epidemic when a young Hawaiian man, also David, is living with his wealthy older lover. The final section catapults the reader into a future where a devastating plague led to totalitarian rule.

The city is zoned with heavily regulated passage control, rationing and full body armor. Charlie, who received an early vaccination, also suffered from side effects that reduced his affect and made it difficult for him to read social cues. At first he accepts the government’s rhetoric as truth, but begins to see its hypocrisy. Each character faces a crossroads, a risky opportunity to seek paradise. However, paradise may not be a place, but a place between loved ones.

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