To Heaven, by Hanya Yanagihara: The Three Faces of New York

A title that does not commit to anything:

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We are all on our way to some paradise, as Polnareff was singing.

, the previous novel by Hanya Yanagihara, it already sounded a bit flat.

But if it doesn't have a genius for titles, it does have a genius for storytelling that grips even the most reluctant reader, and characters that come out of the paper and take you with them.

The pleasure we take in reading it is like the pleasure we take in letting ourselves be carried away by a TV series, a pleasure that has something of an addiction.

Vers le paradis

testifies to an enormous ambition, which is not always very clear.

In fact, Yanagihara wrote three novels, of roughly equal size, all three set partly in a building in Washington Square, which will witness a love story between men in New York in 1893, another in the New York of 1993, and a third in the futuristic city of 2093, when the streets no longer bear names, and 13 Washington…

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