![]() To Paradise consists of two novellas and a novel. Yanagihara gives us so much to think with that we’re bound to come out thinking very different things. ![]() I suspect that even among those of us who like this novel, there will be little common ground. Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise has already attracted wildly divergent critical reactions – everything from ‘it’s a masterpiece’ to ‘it’s a boring, incoherent mess’. ![]() There would be no loneliness, because… they would only know one another… they would never know the agony of wanting to be someone else, for there was no one else to admire, no one else to envy. … There would be no misunderstandings, no concerns that the younger Davids might be somehow different, somehow strange, because the older Davids would understand them. My son, in duplicate, at all different ages, doing all the things my son had liked to do at various points in his life. ![]() Not singular – David’s – but many, as if this land were inhabited not by an ever-changing population of (mostly) children, but by Davids. The reason I really chose this place was because of its name: Davids Island. ![]()
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