The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara

12 July 2018
9781509892983
384 pages

Synopsis

The stunning debut novel, from the author of 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 rumoured 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.

Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in American fiction.

The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.
Impossible to resist
Absorbing, intelligent and uncompromising