The People in the Trees
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The People in the Trees is the first novel by Hanya Yanagihara, published in 2013. It is presented as the memoir of Norton Perina, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist now in prison, edited by a devoted colleague. As a young doctor in 1950, Perina travels to a remote Micronesian island and discovers a tribe whose members live for centuries, which he links to eating a rare turtle. The novel explores ambition, scientific ethics and colonialism.
Recommended by 1 person
- John Green: “If you have a giftee who likes quote-unquote "literary fiction"... I have several recommendations, beginning with Hanya Yanagihara. Her first novel was a very strange book with a deeply unreliable narrator... It's excellent.”