{"product_id":"a-little-life-3","title":"A Little Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I promise you more patience, more gratitude. I promise you less vanity, less selfishness, less complaining, less fear. I promise you. You just have to survive.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/em\u003e follows the complex relationships of four college friends in New York City: Willem, an actor; Malcolm, an architect; JB, an artist; and, at the centre of their group, Jude, a lawyer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, changed by ambition, addiction and pride. Yet their greatest challenge is Jude himself, whose secrets - and shame - define not just his own life, but that of his friends as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, Hanya Yanagihara's novel \u003cem\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/em\u003e has sold over a million copies and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stage adaptation - conceived by Ivo van Hove, and adapted by Koen Tachelet, van Hove and Yanagihara herself - was first performed in a Dutch-language production at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 2018, before transferring to New York in 2022. This English-language version opened in London's West End in 2023, directed by Ivo van Hove and with a cast led by James Norton as Jude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 120 pages | Published May 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997350281565,"sku":"9781839042300","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/a-little-life-3","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}