A Little Life
#55 of 8,085 books · #32 in Fiction
Won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 5 other awards.
Moving to New York to pursue creative ambitions, four former classmates share decades marked by love, loss, addiction, and haunting elements from a brutal childhood.
- Publisher
- Picador
- ISBN-13
- 9781447294832
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Kirkus Prize for FictionWon(2015)
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2017)
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionShortlisted(2016)
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(2016)
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2015)
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(2015)
Other awarded books from Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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