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The people in the trees : A Novel. / Hanya Yanagihara.
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 ...
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- ISBN: 9780385536783 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Anchor, 2013. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2704 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction Historical Fiction. Literature. |
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