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A Little Life
Interview: Hanya Yanagihara on Why Our Longing for Paradise Will Forever Disappoint
Featured Article: 10 Great Contemporary Fiction Authors
If you like well-written novels that prioritize compelling timely storylines with artful prose and structure, then this is the genre for you. So, why is it called "contemporary"? Because it’s fiction set in the real world, in times contemporary to the date it was published, and the stories deal with real-world issues. Representing a diversity of backgrounds and nationalities, here are our picks for the best writers of contemporary fiction over the last 50 years.
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A Little Life
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- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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And the hits just keep on coming…
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A Little Life
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- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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Tan poca vida [A Little Life]
- By: Hanya Yanagihara, Aurora Echevarría Pérez - traductor
- Narrated by: Víctor Velasco, Xavi Fernández
- Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
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Una novela que sigue el hilo de la gran literatura norteamericana y que ha llegado para dar un nuevo sentido al silencio y un nuevo valor a las emociones....
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Frustrante
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Tan poca vida [A Little Life]
- Narrated by: Víctor Velasco, Xavi Fernández
- Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-04-24
- Language: Spanish
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The People in the Trees
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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In 1950, a young doctor call Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu in search of a rumoured lost tribe....
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Terrible but Incredible
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The People in the Trees
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- Release date: 11-14-13
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To Paradise
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To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius....
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Fabulous
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To Paradise
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- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin, Kurt Kanazawa
- Length: 28 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory....
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Recommend you take Zoloft with this
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A Little Life
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- Release date: 10-29-15
- Language: English
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The People in the Trees
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, BD Wong
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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A decade in the writing, this is an anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide....
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How to talk about this....
- By Ruthanne Johnston on 04-30-21
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The People in the Trees
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, BD Wong
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-23-21
- Language: English
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A Little Life
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A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory....
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A Little Life
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
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To Paradise
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The eagerly anticipated novel from Hanya Yanagihara, a brilliant exploration of inclusion and exclusion, race and empire, sexuality and disease, love and family....
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Intriguing and worth listening to
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To Paradise
- Narrated by: BD Wong, Catherine Ho, Edoardo Ballerini, Feodor Chin, Kurt Kanazawa
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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Ein wenig Leben
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
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- Length: 35 hrs and 56 mins
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"Ein wenig Leben" handelt von der lebenslangen Freundschaft zwischen vier Männern in New York, die sich am College kennengelernt haben...
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Ein wenig Leben
- Narrated by: Torben Kessler
- Length: 35 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-30-17
- Language: German
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Zum Paradies
- By: Hanya Yanagihara, Stephan Kleiner - Übersetzer
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- Length: 30 hrs and 33 mins
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1893, in einem Amerika, das anders ist, als wir es aus den Geschichtsbüchern kennen: New York gehört zu den Free States, in denen...
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Zum Paradies
- Narrated by: Torben Kessler
- Length: 30 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: German
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Das Volk der Bäume
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
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- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
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Was als packende Expedition in der Dschungelwelt Mikronesiens beginnt, wird zur Begegnung mit den Abgründen des Menschlichen...
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Das Volk der Bäume
- Narrated by: Matthias Bundschuh, Gunter Schoß, Thomas Hollaender, Joachim Schönfeld
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-28-19
- Language: German
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To Paradise
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
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- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
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The eagerly anticipated novel from Hanya Yanagihara, a brilliant exploration of inclusion and exclusion, race and empire, sexuality and disease, love and family....
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To Paradise
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Feodor Chin, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Kurt Kanazawa
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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