![]() ![]() There the prominent Bingham family runs the primary bank of the Free States, one of a patchwork of nations (including the southern Colonies, the Union, the West, and the North) sustaining an uneasy co-existence after the War of Rebellion. ![]() The first book, Washington Square, takes place in the early 1890s in a New York City that the reader quickly realises is off-kilter. Hanya Yanagihara, whose first book, A Little Life, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, has a new, epic novel, To Paradise, that acts as both allegory and forecast. To Paradise, which is in fact three linked novels bound in a single volume, is constructed something like a soma cube, with plots that interlock but whose unifying logic and mechanisms are designed to baffle. While reading To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara’s gigantic new novel, I felt the impulse a few times to put down the book and make a chart – the kind of thing you see TV detectives assemble on their living-room walls when they have a web of evidence but no clear theory of the case. ![]()
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