The People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Based on the true story of Nobel Prize-winner Dr Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, this debut novel asks searching questions of the human condition. Does a hard-to-find turtle hold the secret of long life? Now in paperback. The brooding, bold and brilliant first novel from the Man Booker- and Bailey's Prize-shortlisted author of A Little Life. 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 rumoured 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. This 2015 Atlantic Books Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9780857898975 SKU: 1583625 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1583625
Location: Fiction