A Little Life
11 years ago by
Vous savez, ces livres qui changent la vie ? Ceux après lesquels on n’arrive plus rien à lire parce qu’on ne trouvera jamais rien d’aussi bien ? Eh bien A Little Life en fait partie.
Ce livre, c’est plutôt un pavé, ce qui m’a un peu intimidée au départ. Mais une fois que je m’y suis mise, impossible de le lâcher. C’est le deuxième roman de l’auteure américaine Hanya Yanaghihara, l’une des finalistes pour le prestigieux Man Booker Prize.
A Little Life, c’est la vie de quatre amis (quatre hommes) qui vivent en plein cœur de New York, qui s’intéresse aux complexités de l’amitié, à la mémoire et comme l’a dit Man Booker « aux limites de l’endurance humaine. » Ça a l’air assez anodin dit comme ça, mais le livre est assez déchirant. L’un des quatre protagonistes (Jude) a vécu une enfance cauchemardesque, et franchement, c’était assez insupportable de lire les histoires de sa jeunesse, mais qu’est-ce que c’est puissant ! Je vous le recommande chaleureusement, et tous ceux qui l’ont lu autour de moi partagent mon avis. Oui, vous le lirez certainement seul au lit le soir et vous pleurerez, mais c’est tellement bon de se sentir profondément ému par un livre de fiction de temps en temps !
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I love to read and I will defiantly look if I can find this book! xx
Oh Emily I am sooo loving this book. Yes crying, happy, all emotions, I have stayed up late reading the past few nights and am tired but cannot wait to get back to it tonight. Do not want it to finish but am quite anxious about how it will finish. Definitely recommend.
oooh you totally get it!! It’s amazing right?! Let me know if you’ve read anything else that you think is as good! I started another book but it seems like such a drag compared to this. x
I knew when you said that your next review was about a book that was tough to read but impossible to put down that this was the one. I felt the same.
I like « Just Kids » by Patty Smith, « The Woman I wanted to be » by DVF
Hi Anastasia,
I really liked Just Kids too! I would recommend Patti Smith’s new book, « M Train » it’s very good! x Emily
May I recommend « Late Fragments » by Kate Gross? A funny, wise and heartwarming book for any woman who has ever wondered what it’s all about.
I’m reading it now. Had to stop for s while. Very painful. You’re right. powerful!
Thanks for recommending! Although I try not to read sad books – they make lose faith. :(
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I would love to read this book, but last time I checked it was not translate yet to french. The english version is scaring me a bit.
Completely agree, a brutal book but completely compelling and impossible to put down. We had it as our last book club book, and one of us, a New Yorker (we are in Brighton, England) who is also a child psychologist and very well read, says it’s her best book EVER.
Très intéressant ! Moi qui suis plutôt intéressée par les livres de non-fiction habituellement, je me laisserais bien tenter par celui-ci ! En plus ça se passe à NYC et rien que ça ça doit être TOP ;)
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Oh I love a good read! I’ll have to see if I can download it to my Kindle x
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Merci pour cette découverte! Il rejoint directement ma longue liste de livres « qui vont changer ma vie », ou tout du moins m’aider à la comprendre.
Oof I read this book this past Fall, and it’s true, it’s really a life-changer. Amazing and moving and incredibly sad.
I’ve been wanting to read this book since first hearing about it, but I’m scared because I keep hearing how devastating it is! I do not know that I can handle sad right now, but still feel desperately drawn to read it :(
Briana
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On parle beaucoup sur ce blog et ça me plait!!!!
Just saw this at Powell’s this weekend and it looked intriguing–now that you recommended it so highly I am definitely going to read it!
to all those who said they’re afraid to read or they don’t like sad books.
i skimmed the parts when jude was a child but it went on and the things that happen in jude’s life (he really becomes the main character) when he is older made me feel good. i did not walk away from this feeling horrid or sad.
Il faut lire Le Chardonneret, de Donna Tartt, la densité des personnages et l’histoire sont prenantes. Mais je vous le conseille en vacances car pour les trajets maison-métro-boulot ce n’est pas vraiment adapté ;-))
En tout cas il faut lire ;-)