The People in the Trees

by Yanagihara, Hanya
ISBN: 9780345803313
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A powerful work of visionary literary fiction from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize and National Book Award-nominated modern classic, A Little Life.

It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Disquieting yet thrilling, The People in the Trees is an anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Yanagihara, Hanya
  • ISBN: 9780345803313
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 496
  • Publication Year: 2014

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  • An unflinching look at colonizer psychology

    Dale B. - 1 year 1 month ago

    This book is that rare balance between character-driven academic literature and page-turning fiction. The plot is difficult to describe. The narrator is a scientist named Dr. Norton Perina who "discovers" a group of people on a remote island who have never had contact with the outside world. Perina is an intelligent man, but he's also pathologically narcissistic, and as he tries to investigate certain mysteries surrounding these people, he slowly destroys their culture. The end is shocking and grim--not for the faint of heart. The fact that this is Yanagihara's debut novel is simply astounding. Her follow-up novel, "A Little Life," is also a masterpiece.

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  • A jungle of mystery breeds a book of big ideas

    Justin M. - 2 years 3 months ago

    In Hanya Yanagihara's first novel, she explores the many complex relationships of man: human to human; human to the environment; and human to self, the deepest mystery of all. The story takes place in a fictional South Pacific nation made up of three pristine islands. As the story begins, the island-states are pure and free of the trappings of modern culture; the people on these islands live as they have been for thousands of years. Dr. A. Norton Perina is fresh out of medical school when he is asked to accompany a noted Stanford anthropologist as he explores one of these islands for signs of a mysterious and unknown race of people. The journey sets off a remarkable series of events that eventually change the world, and, to an even greater extent, the course of Dr. Perina's life forever. Told with exquisite skill and compassion, The People in the Trees invites the reader along on a journey that is beautiful, repulsive, enlightening and impossible to describe. This book is highly recommended to any reader who may have loved Yanagihara's most recent novel A Little Life, or to anyone who wishes to take a journey into a wild, untamed environment. Beware, though: you will come back irreversibly changed.

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