![]() ![]() In Washington Square, she opts for the third person, employing a stylised voice that’s appropriate for the period. This is partly due to the manner in which she has deployed perspective. ![]() ![]() Zone Eight alternates between the ‘present’ of 2093 and letters from a powerful government scientist to his distant confidant - illuminating the readers as to how 2093’s state of affairs came to be with prescient and devastating logic.Ī post shared by Hanya Yanagihara a testament to Yanagihara’s narrative control that things don’t become convoluted. We find a young and ostensibly fragile wife and her husband, living under the pressure of constant surveillance, their advancement in life halted by virtue of their connections to enemies of the state. This book, Zone Eight, is twice as long as the other two and here, Yanagihara renders her most worryingly detailed picture. In 2093, after a series of plagues, America finds itself in the grip of a totalitarian regime. 1993 has a more funereal atmosphere, as New York’s gay community attempts to rebuild amid the ashes of the AIDS epidemic. Another is its trajectory of devolution: the New York of 1893 is presented as a paragon of tolerance (in love, at least), though beset with aggressors that lie beyond the frontier of ‘The Free States’. This is what lends To Paradise some of its ghostly and affecting emotional triggers: the past is never quite in the past. ![]()
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