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The bookies hot favourite is hanya yanagiharas a little life, the story of four college friends who have moved to new york seeking fame and fortune. The book has been awarded with man booker prize nominee 2015, womens prize for fiction nominee 2016 and many others. A little life is a depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance when four graduates from a small massachusetts college move to new york to make their way, theyre broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. She was further shortlisted for the andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction and the international dublin literary award in 2017. Hanya yanagihara bio, facts, family life, achievements. When four graduates from a small massachusetts college move to new york to make their way, theyre broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. The million copy bestseller, a little life by hanya yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. In 1950, a young doctor called norton perina signs on with the anthropologist paul tallent for an expedition to the remote micronesian island of ivuivu in search of a rumoured lost tribe.
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