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Original Title:	The People in the Trees
ISBN:	0385536771 (ISBN13: 9780385536776)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2014), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014), The Kitschies Nominee for Golden Tentacle (Debut) (2014)

The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara

Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 16687 Users | 2433 Reviews

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Title	:	The People in the Trees
Author	:	Hanya Yanagihara
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	August 13th 2013 by Doubleday
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

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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.

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6 Reasons Why The People in the Trees is Perfect1. // It's a book within a book.Maybe it's just me, but I'm delighted whenever this happens. If you're a little hesitant, fear not. This is no gimmick. There is no better way this strange story could be told. The book is framed as Norton Perina's memoir that he's writing from jail. The introduction, editing, and footnotes are done by his friend, Ronald. At one point, Norton Perina says about his life: "...I have found that contemplating the events

There was the forest we knew, but beyond it perhaps there was a whole other forest, an entirely different ecosystem with its own distinct set of birds and mushrooms and fruits and animals. Perhaps there was another set of villages as well, protected by the trees for centuries, whose people lived to be a thousand and never lost their minds, or who died when they were teenagers, or who never had sex with children, or who only did.Главное, что я вынесла из этой книги -- ALL у нее получилась не

This is a very different book to Hanya Yanigihara's second novel "A Little Life" but it is almost as good and shows me just how much of a great writer she really is.First I'll say what is similar in both novels: they're both extremely well-written in style and they both deal with sexual misconduct with children, albeit in a very different way. In the 1990s Dr. Ronald Kubodera, a colleague of Nobel Laureate Dr. Abraham Norton Perina (based on the real scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek who was

Theres something so special about Hanya Yanagiharas writing even when shes writing about harrowing or off putting subjects. She has such an ability to get into the marrow of her characters and shes not afraid to explore the ugly side of human nature. I was taken completely by surprise as I was uncertain if I was entering another A Little Life vortex (that book was nearly the death of me) but this book felt like a different author altogether, the topic and scene couldnt be further from what I was

The People in the Trees was on the Publishers Weekly top ten books of 2013 list, and it's on the Tournament of Books list for 2014.It's written like an annotated memoir based on letters from jail, about a scientist who does research on immortality on a newly discovered Micronesian tribe. So the style is cool, you would almost think it was real non-fiction but its all fiction and therefore a novel. I even got tricked a few times into looking up books that are mentioned. They don't exist. Nothing

This book bothered me. It's story held potential but ultimately I felt its plot and it's characters (or really character as this is the story of one man) were left hanging on the tree never to ripen. More so though Yanagihara has chosen to tell the story through a wholly unlikeable, unpitiable and unsympathetic narrator. I get it; but also I hate this guy. I hated him for some 350 pages. I hated him far more after the plot reveal of the postscript that had loomed over the whole of the story. I

***SPOILERS HIDDEN***In the final pages, this beautifully written story takes a dark turn that's left me questioning its reason for being. In the beginning, I was confident I'd begun an anthropological adventure with magical realism elements. As I read on, I was disturbed by the flashes of cruelty coming from the main character, scientist Norton Perina. This is a man who takes delight in killing his lab mice and who regards the tribal people he studies as less than human. I was troubled by these