The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
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Overview:
Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary
fiction—including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State
of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter
Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord—will be drawn to this
astonishingly gripping and accomplished first novel. A decade in the
writing, this is an anthropological adventure story that combines the
visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what
happens when cultures collide. It is a book that instantly catapults
Hanya Yanagihara into the company of young novelists who really, really
matter.
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on
with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote
Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They
succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers
they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived
but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their
longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of
eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States. He
scientifically proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel
Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a
terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his own
demons take hold, with devastating personal consequences.
“The
People in the Trees is a Nabokovian phantasmagoria, bound to raise
serious, interesting, troubling questions. Hanya Yanagihara is a writer
to watch."
—Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Color of Night and All Souls’ Rising
“The
People in the Trees is not a first novel like other first novels. This
is a big, soaring, old-school, super-absorbing vehicle into another
world. It’s a mystery story, an ecological parable, a monstrous
confession, and a fascinating consideration of moral relativism.
Yanagihara’s narrator is misanthropic and grotesque, yet simultaneously
magnetic; her prose is dazzling; and her book is a triumph of the
imagination.
—Anthony Doerr, author of Four Seasons in Rome and The Shell Collector
“This
is an engrossing, beautifully detailed, at times amazing (and shocking)
novel, and right up my alley: a far-off and beautiful place in the
Pacific, islanders living to their own drumbeat, earnest meddling
outsiders, and a sticky outcome—the Fall, with a lot of science and
passion behind it, and an impressive debut for Hanya Yanagihara. I loved
this book.”
—Paul Theroux, author of The Lower River and The Great Railway Bazaar
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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