To the Very Paradise

The new novel by Hanya Yanagihara, author of the world bestsellers “A Little Life” and “People in the Trees”, is both an extraordinary intellectual challenge and a piercing shot to the heart. In an alternative version of America in 1893,... when the scion of an influential family agrees to a suitable
arranged marriage, he is suddenly overtaken by a passion that threatens to destroy his ordinary life. In 1993, a young Hawaiian hides his noble heritage and complicated relationship with his father from his loved ones. In 2093, the granddaughter of a great scientist seeks her own path in a world of epidemics and total control. Their fates intertwine in a complex symphony, echoing strangely across the centuries and undergoing timeless human trials: loneliness, love, shame, illness, betrayal, good and evil — all these elusive things that from time to time threaten to turn into their opposite.