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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.
- Sales Rank: #42875 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-13
- Released on: 2013-08-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Driven by Yanagihara's gorgeously complete imaginary ethnography on the one hand and, on the other, by her brilliantly detestable narrator, this debut novel is compelling on every level—morally, aesthetically, and narratively. Yanagihara balances pulpy adventure tale excitement with serious consideration in unraveling her fantastical premise: a scientist, Norton Perina, discovers an island whose inhabitants may somehow have achieved immortality. Perina sets out on an anthropological mission that became more significant than he could have imagined. His tale raises interesting, if somewhat obvious, ethical questions; what can be justified in the name of science? How far does cultural relativism go? Is immortality really desirable? The book doesn't end with his astounding discovery, though. It continues with seeming banality to recount the predictable progression of academic honors that followed it and the swift and destructive attempt to commercialize Perina's findings. The story of Perina as a man emerges with less show but just as much gruesome fascination as that of his discovery and its results. Evidence of his character worms its way through the book in petulant asides and elided virulence, at first seeming incidental to the plot and then reflecting its moral themes on a small scale. Without making him a simple villain, Yanagihara shows how Perina's extraordinary circumstances allow his smothered weaknesses to blossom horribly. In the end, he reveals the full extent of his loathsomeness explicitly, unashamedly, convinced of his immutable moral right. (Aug. 13)
From Booklist
Debut novelist Yanagihara tackles some ambitious and deeply vexing scientific and personal conundrums. By way of protagonist Dr. Norton Perina’s memoir, the story unfolds of a “lost tribe” of Micronesian natives who have discovered the secret of immortality. At first anthropologist Paul Tallent and associate Esme Duff invite Perina along on what they describe as an investigation into a myth, but their real hope is to confirm the tribe’s existence. After many pages of overlong, obtuse, parenthetical sentences describing the island’s dense jungle, readers will be relieved when the team finally happens upon the fabled tribe. Despite the language barrier, Tallent convinces the leaders that the team means them no harm; they only want to learn about tribal customs. While the anthropologists take notes, Perina snoops around until he discovers the tribe’s secret to immortality and, in time, exploits and abuses it for his own despicable purposes. Perina is a delightfully black-hearted protagonist trapped inside Yanagihara’s unfortunately inelegant prose. --Donna Chavez
Review
"One of the year's best books...Driven by Yanagihara's gorgeously complete imaginary ethnography on the one hand and, on the other, by her brilliantly detestable narrator, this debut novel is compelling on every level—morally, aesthetically, and narratively."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"[The People in the Trees] is exhaustingly inventive and almost defiant in its refusal to offer redemption or solace—but that is arguable one of its virtues. As for Yanagihara, she is a writer to marvel at."
—The New York Times Book Review
"The People in the Trees is a haunting story of moral absolutes confounded by a seemingly empirical understanding of the merciless caprices of nature...A standout novel, a debut as thrilling as it is disturbing."
—The Wall Street Journal
"The People in the Trees is a multi-layered novel. It provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth. But it's also a deeply satisfying adventure story with a horrifying conclusion."
—Chicago Tribune
"The People in the Trees is flawlessly paced and deeply nuanced—a gorgeous, meaty novel that is spellbinding, scandalous and supremely satisfying."
—BookPage
"Yanagihara presents a cautionary tale about what can happen when Western arrogance meets primeval culture."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Whether you find yourself to be a champion of Perina's bold ideas or horrified by his actions or—more realistically—feel a measure of both, Yanagihara's twisted, audacious tale is as gripping as they come."
—Bustle.com
“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
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66 of 72 people found the following review helpful.
Spellbinding? Yikes! This book grabbed me so completely that...
By B. Case
...I vanished. There were times when I'm sure a bomb could have gone off and it would not have broken the spell. I wasn't in my world; I was away, in that other reality.
Hanya Yanagihara's "People of the Trees" is a brilliant, cerebral, lavish, and psychologically-nuanced tale that transports readers on an mind-boggling adventure to the Forbidden Island of Ivu'ivu--a virtually unknown Micronesian island, 1000 miles east of Tahiti--a mysterious, damp, dark, jungle world where some members of a small lost tribe can live to well over 300 years old.
The book is written as the fictional memoir of Dr. A. Norton Perina. In 1950, as a young graduate of Harvard Medical School, he accepts a job as part of a scientific expedition to explore Uvu'ivu and study its lost tribe. Perina returns to the U. S. with a four of their oldest natives, called "The Dreamers," and a small sample of rare local turtle meat--the mysterious substance that the doctor assumes is the key to this tribe's incredible longevity. He spends years conducting extensive human and animal laboratory research and publishing his findings. Eventually, his research leads to a Noble Prize; it also leads to the demise of the Uvu'ivuan culture, the extinction of the Opa'ivu'eke turtle, and the near total destruction of the entire island habitat.
From the very first pages, we discover that Dr. Perina is an antihero. He's a convicted pedophile, a man imprisoned at age 71 for sexually abusing one of his many adopted Uvu'ivuan children. Naturally, he says he's innocent...but very early on we learn how easy it is to detest this man. He's one of those dangerous men who combine unrestrained scientific curiosity with an almost total lack of empathy. He's a self-unaware genius with a cynical, self-aggrandizing academic intellect; an odd man with minimal interpersonal skills. The more we learn about him, the easier it is to detest him. He tries hard to show us inside the complexities of his mind and heart, to help us understand him. He's very cunning; there were times, when he came close to winning me over.
So what makes this antihero's life story utterly fascinating and compelling? It's that Dr. Perina is able to keep his readers absolutely spellbound with a story of spectacular originality. He tries to be cerebral, honest, and scientific, but his writing ends up being fascinating in its hidden psychological detail. In addition, the doctor remembers everything with such preternatural accuracy that reality blurs and we are lost in his strange, lavish storytelling.
Naturally, the storytelling skill is all Yanagihara's. We are transfixed by her wholly believable characters and in thrall to the intricacy and astonishing reality of her narrative. The author also manages to build a great deal of thematic depth and biting satire into the narrative.
I highly recommend this book, but with caution: it may not suit everyone's tastes. It takes more than eighty pages for the author to get to the enthralling story of the Forbidden Island of Ivu'ivu. Many readers may find these beginning essential character-building pages slow and boring. In addition, many readers may find the detestable narrator so off-putting that they have little motivation to get into the story. After all, this is a book that takes readers inside the mind of a convicted pedophile; this is a literary journey that many readers may not want to make. And then, there are readers who will find it frustrating or uninteresting to figure out what is really happening by seeing through the detailed, self-unaware haze of Perina's and his fictional editor's writing. But for those readers who enjoy navigating this strange storytelling brew--this stimulating, intellectual and literary maze--the rewards are extraordinary.
I didn't just love this novel; it blew me away!
101 of 113 people found the following review helpful.
Review of The People in the Trees
By Lydia
I feel duped. I mean, I have a degree in literature, I should be able to identify an unreliable narrator from miles away, right? But the way Yanaghira began The People in the Trees, with those press releases... I mean, it was like I was predestined to take the side of Norton Perina. And you will know what I mean when you begin the book and also deal with the same, overwhelming evidence that is presented.
So The People in the Trees is a multi-layered novel. One layer is beautiful, beautiful scientific detailing of a tribe culture, complete with origin story and mythology. And the best part? It's backed up by some science. There's mystery and intrigue, pain and anguish, heartbreak and strange customs, it's all contained in the first person narrative of Norton Perina, the doctor-turned-anthropologist who is introduced to the "lost" culture along with two other scientists. One of my favorite moments in this book is when Norton describes the "lost" culture (quoted from ARC - may be subject to changes):
"And if one looks at that population, one sees that most of those "lost" tribes are actually lost only to the white man: just because civilized society stumbles upon a group of Amazonian people does not mean that those people are unknown to dozens of other, better-documented, neighboring tribes."
Talk about an ego-check. The post-colonial researcher in me ached to read more about this tribe (and, thankfully I can read and research something similar as this is based on a true story).
The other thing I really liked about this book was that it was a fictional book that read like a memoir, complete with editors footnotes. Normally, footnotes annoy the bejeebus out of me but not this time. I found myself caught in pages of footnotes, learning more background information and, in one specific case, angry because I was being denied information. It's such an intricate, beautiful way of writing a book and it made it feel so real that I'm sure it didn't help with my whole issue of not spotting the unreliable narrator.
Finally, the subject matter. I've seen at least one review that treats some of the more sensitive topics in this book with condemnation. I think it's important to understand, going into this book where right off the bat, the researcher is up on some pretty nasty charges, that there are moments that will make you feel uncomfortable. It's also important to understand that, in the field of anthropology, it's important to watch and learn. We are so quick to place our own morals and manner of living on other cultures that sometimes we forget that we do some pretty strange things too. So I'll stop off my soapbox there with that reminder and just restate that this was a very powerful book about a very interesting progression of events. It had me thinking not only of how we tend to trample all over other lesser-known religions and rituals instead of understand and respect the fact that those very things were the essence of life for those people for centuries.
So yeah, this would make a powerful, powerful book club read - but I will also say that it will probably offend most book clubs. It's a mature topic, a mature book, and it really requires a mind set on acquiring knowledge rather than one looking to sensationalize small portions of the book at the expense of the rest of it.
33 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Norton's Folly
By L.W. Samuelson
The story begins slowly with Norton Perina's graduation from medical school and his subsequent decision to accompany an anthropologist to Ivu'Ivu', a Micronesian world of jungle inhabited by a clearly defined, believable culture of hunter and gatherers. The exquisite writing paints a picture of a native village unsullied by the developed world until the expedition's arrival and Perina's discovery: some of the villagers have been banished because they have eaten the flesh of the opa'ivu'eke, a sacred turtle, enabling them to live 3 to 4 times longer than normal. Once these villagers begin displaying signs of dementia, they are taken far out into the jungle and left to fend for themselves.
Perina takes some of these "dreamers" back to the states along with some of the flesh of the turtle and substantiates his findings through them and a controlled study of mice. When he publishes his findings, pharmaceutical companies rush to the island and destroy it and the native culture. Norton gets a Nobel and the natives get the shaft. Perina returns several times over the years "ostensibly" to conduct more studies and with each visit brings back diseased, starving, unwanted children. He cures their diseases, provides for their physical needs, and enables them to adapt to American culture, but Perina's ministrations come with a price, a sexual price. The crux of the story revolves around whether his accomplishments outweigh his unspeakable crimes.
The People in the Trees explores many moral and ethical questions and since Norton narrates the story, we discover than he lacks any self-awareness because he deems himself to be a great man. He, like many of those with great power, is able to see his greatness but can't see the heinous evil that taints his soul.
For me, the story developed slowly and the narrative was bogged down by footnotes. Also, I found the content of the book to be disturbing while at the same time deeply thought provoking. (I pondered the book over a campfire and discussed it with my companion.)
Despite my ambivalence, The People in the Trees is clearly an accomplished work of literature that dares to explore one of the greatest taboos of Western culture and anyone with patience and an appreciation of great writing will enjoy the book.
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