
The People in the Trees
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Narrated by:
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Mark Bramhall
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BD Wong
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By:
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Hanya Yanagihara
Listeners 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.
*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains a map and the Appendix from the book.
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Critic reviews
"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)
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Narration was perfect.
Difficult
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Brilliant writing
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Plot just drags you in
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This book is fiction but based on an actual case, many years ago, in which a Nobel,Prize winner for medicine was convicted and imprisoned for sexual abuse of minors.
In this book, a medical doctor and doctor of anthropology go to the eastern Pacific islands to find a tribe of people who live for 200 yrs or more but, as they grow older, they lose their minds. All this is because of a certain rare species of turtle that is the mainstay of their diets.
Once they meet up with this tribe, they become witness to the tribe’s sexual practices involving children and they are disgusting.
An aside: I don’t know much about the author’s background but in both of her books, she delves heavily into child rape and anal sex and, in both books, it’s particularly shocking to read.
Other than that, it’s a fascinating story, wonderfully written, and sad and shocking right till the last sentence.
How to talk about this....
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A heart wrenching tale
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This was so well written, and I absolutely hated this protagonist and his apologist with a searing passion!
The most hateful protagonist ever
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Beautiful literary graphics and voice
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Chance of confusion
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Ewww
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Maybe I am not the target audience for this book because I struggled to listen to it every step of the way and did not enjoy any portion of this audiobook the entire process felt like work to get through.
Was a rough listen
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