{"product_id":"9781839042300-little-life","title":"A Little Life","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, adapted for the stage from Hanya Yanagihara's bestselling novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\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\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\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\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\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40819672940641,"sku":"9781839042300","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31618739.jpg?v=1733989036","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781839042300-little-life","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}