麻州一所小型大學畢業的四個同學搬到紐約闖蕩，他們沒錢、對未來茫然，只靠他們的友誼和野心撐下去。善良、英俊的威廉渴望成為演員；機智、時而殘酷的畫家傑比努力想在藝術圈闖出名聲；困惑的麥坎是建築師，在一家很有名的事務所工作；還有內向、才華橫溢、謎一樣的裘德，他成為四個人的重心。
歷經數十年，他們的友誼發展得更深刻也更陰暗，受到了藥物成癮、成功與傲慢的影響。但每個人逐漸明白，他們最大的挑戰，就是裘德這個人。到了中年，他成為一位極優秀的律師，但也愈來愈殘破，他的心靈和身體因為不堪說出口的可怕童年留下傷疤，而且當年的創傷不斷糾纏著他──他擔心那嚴重的程度，自己不但無法克服，還會永遠被這些創傷定義。
這是一本充滿智慧與情感的出色小說，柳原極其熟練地描繪了一個哀傷的故事，對經驗和記憶的暴虐專橫，進行陰暗而令人難忘的探討。
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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.
