{"product_id":"a-little-life","title":"A Little Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrating 50 years of Picador Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the National Book Awards 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe million-copy bestseller, \u003cem\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/em\u003e by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen four graduates 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realise, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45719101210860,"sku":"9781529077216","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529077216_22cd1958-4107-4446-9673-9900a1d0c7aa.jpg?v=1745835157","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-little-life","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}