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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life Paperback Edition    A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. *** Title : A Little Life Author : Hanya Yanagihara Published year: 2015 Pages: 816 Genre: Coming of Age, Melancholic, Fiction Publisher : Penguin Random House Before I decided to purchase and later read this book, I noticed many readers recommend this book because we can feel the Osamu-Dazai- vibes in the book. When I saw the book volume, to be honest, a s

People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

  Pocket size book A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a t­ree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll’s brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday—the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color and shape of the roof of the tax office—slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six “palm of the hand” stories—fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one’s hand—Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation. ***   Author : Hiromi Kawakami Published year : 2020 Origin languange : Japanese Genre : Short Stories, Fiction Pages : 121 Publisher:  Granta This is a book that made me fall in love at the first sight because

One of Us is Next by Karen M. Mc.Manus

  Paperback edition Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this. A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.  Until now.  This time it's not an app, though—it's a game.  Truth or Dare. Phoebe 's the first target. If you choose not to play, it's a truth. And hers is dark.  Then comes  Maeve  and she should know better—always choose the dare.  But by the time  Knox  is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it's that they can't count on the police for help. Or protection. Simon's gone, but someone's determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And the rules have changed. *** One of Us is Next (One of Us is Lying #2) Author : Karen M. Mcmanus Published yea