5/13/2023 0 Comments Hanya yanagihara to paradise![]() ![]() Yanagihara writes with elegance, evoking emotion and rendering believable characters who move the plot. "To Paradise" is a novel of the highest order. Bears run wild and people eat horse meat and broiled raccoon. Diseases are manufactured in labs and American scientists report findings to China. Charles Griffith, “one of the architects of the camps” where the sick go to die. The narration alternates between Charlie, a lab tech, and her scientist grandfather, Dr. Yanagihara creates a cloistered society in which human suffering, even the killing of infants, is a daily occurrence. One can’t spend an evening debating an article or a novel, because none of those things is possible any longer. ![]() There are no movies, no television, no internet. ![]() Several pandemics have spread through New York, and the city is divided into zones: Washington Square Park is located in Zone 8, Harlem falls in Zone 11 and Times Square is situated in Zone 9. A totalitarian regime has a stronghold on New York denizens. Yanagihara's unparalleled storytelling skills shine in the dystopia of "Part III: Zone Eight," which opens in 2093 near Washington Square Park. ![]()
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