![]() ![]() ![]() What the novel attempts to mainly argue is that paradise is an absurd concept, exclusionary, dangerous, and fatally self-deluding. And in 2093, pandemics and storms push the area now known as Zone Eight into an authoritarian society, locking up millions for society's protection. ![]() A century later, a descendant of the last monarch of Hawaii lives in the same neighborhood - Greenwich Village - as AIDS ravages a generation, while his heritage is endangered. In The Free States of America, centered in New York of the 1890s, same-sex love and marriage are the norms. The novel winds through three epics across 200 years and into an alternative world. At more than 700 pages, with a span of 200 years, Yanagihara's 'To Paradise' is presented uniquely in three books with three different plot lines and begins in New York in 1893. After seven years, she is back with the daunting ' To Paradise'. Hanya Yanagihara, a deputy editor at 'T: The New York Times Style Magazine', earlier received widespread critical acclaim for her 2015 novel 'A Little Life', a devastating story about four friends in New York City. ![]()
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