{"product_id":"to-paradise-anglais","title":"To Paradise \/anglais","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an alternate version of 1893 America  New York is part of the Free States  where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor  drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic  a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older  wealthier partner  hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093  in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule  a powerful scientists damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without himand solve the mystery of her husbands disappearances.  These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony  as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness  and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family  and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful  and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise  and the gradual realization that it cant exist. What unites not just the characters  but these Americas  are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.  To Paradise is a fin de siecle novel of marvelous literary effect  but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagiharas understanding of the aching desire to protect those we lovepartners  lovers  children  friends  family and even our fellow citizensand the pain that ensues when we cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955658977333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385548419","price":39.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385548410_a2308406-7303-4368-8f8a-b0b4cccf3711.jpg?v=1770313593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-paradise-anglais","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}