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To Paradise

Auteur(s): Hanya Yanagihara
Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin, Kurt Kanazawa
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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—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.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS

To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable 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.

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 comprise an 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. Dystopique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Science-fiction New York
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A beautiful story that must be finished to fully appreciate. I would have t assume a tie between California and Hawaii but it wasn’t clear

This is a long but but you must finish it

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decided to make ‘To Paradise’ my first Yanagihara read to avoid comparing it to ‘A Little Life’ at every turn. This novel is ambitious and demands a significant amount of patience from the reader. At just over 700 pages, I repeatedly asked myself “what is she getting at?” and “I don’t see how the pieces click together”? Although it loses steam towards the middle and the atmosphere change between sections feels abrupt, I’m glad I stuck with it until the very end because Part III is where I felt the grandeur of this story.

I’d categorize ‘To Paradise’ as speculative fiction with a touch of historical fiction (part I) and dystopian sci-fi (part III). The book is split into 3 parts spanning 200 years: part I taking place in 1893, part II in 1993, and part III in 2093. In each of these sections, Yanagihara distorts aspects of American history to ask : What is America? Who writes history, and who is written out of it? Is America rotten to the core, and is there anything we can do about it?

At first, the only obvious connection between the sections is the recycling of names. As I tried to keep track of who is who and how, if at all, they are related, I felt the weight of each name grow heavier with each reappearance. By the time I reached part III, I was anxious for each name to appear to me once more, carrying a charged history born anew. Apart from the names, there are several themes and motifs that rotate through each section. There’s the discussion of marriage as either an institution or an act of love, of class, social structure and political systems, legacy, identity, race, and illness; essentially, Yanagihara plays around with all forces that challenge or act in direct opposition to humanity.

The dystopia presented in the final part is unsettling, especially knowing that Yanagihara drafted this book before the start of the pandemic. Part III acts as an ecological parable reinforcing the key themes from parts I and II but also asking the reader to dig deeper into the core of this story. Dropped into a totalitarian version of New York, the history of multiple pandemics plaguing the Free States is explained in the form of correspondence from a scientist working on infectious disease. Through his letters he shows how humanity has morphed, resisted, or been extinguished entirely. But even as this altered version of our world is propelled into a dark future, there remains a willingness, although dimmed by time and failed systems, to make amends and to continue to strive to paradise

An ambitious story

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Enjoyed the uncertainty that prevails throughout the novel. Will David find love? Will Charlie escape? Will the world survive? If the pandemic didn't frighten you enough, the inevitability
of future diseases and their impact on us will leave you shaken. Excellent performances by all.

Hope ?...Maybe

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The first story had me smiling along with the play on an alternate history. Intriguing to think of a world where partners can be chosen through all methods but that marriage is still held high according to socioeconomic rank and the US is still divided. I was deep into Charles journey (although a little tired of the constant hop into bed but I guess that’s human reality). Then -slam - no wrap up ending of any kind, and true, the story as part of ancestor history could go on forever - but my mind could not gather in the second story the same character names but entirely different people in no way connected to the first although maybe through the passing of multiple generations. I stopped reading, preferring to muse about which pathway Charles’ life took.

The many shades of the marriage contract

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Couldnt get past the third chapter no matter what i tried . Skip this one and dolnt waste ur breath

Boring

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