Hanya Yanagihara

Op vrijdag 11 maart staat Hanya Yanagihara in De Duif. De schrijfster van de succesvolle roman ‘Een Klein Leven’ zal tijdens dit programma praten over haar nieuwe boek ‘Naar Het Paradijs’. Omdat dit programma volledig in het Engels is, hebben we ervoor gekozen om ook de rest van de aankondiging in het Engels te schrijven.

This year’s most anticipated new novel is without a doubt Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’ (published in Dutch as ‘Naar Het Paradijs’ by Nieuw Amsterdam).

We are thrilled that Hanya Yanagihara will join us for a conversation in Paradiso, about her three-part story across three centuries, centered around New York City. ‘To Paradise’ is a revisionist American history – not identical to the America as we know it but a what if narrative, invested in raising concerns about America as a nation: what it has been, what it might have been and what it could be. An epic tale told across multiple timelines and characters, separate from each other, but providing major themes and takeaways for the reader.

Hanya Yanagihara’s previous novel 'A Little Life' was the novel of 2015: critics lavished praise on the book and it would go on to win the Kirkus Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize; it has been adapted for the stage by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA), and readers of the New York Times nominated it for one of the 25 best books of the past 125 years.

To Paradise is a big book in every sense of the phrase and it will definitely be one of the most talked about literary fiction books of 2022. Come to Paradiso on March 11 to join the conversation with one of the best novelists of our time.

Dit programma wordt in samenwerking met het John Adams Institute en Uitgeverij Nieuw Amsterdam georganiseerd.