The People in the Trees
- ISBN-10
- 0345803310
- ISBN-13
- 9780345803313
- Series
- The People in the Trees
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 476
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Hanya Yanagihara
Description
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence. A first novel.
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