A powerful work of visionary literary fiction from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize and National Book Award-nominated modern classic, A Little Life .
Disquieting yet thrilling, The People in the Trees is an anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide..
But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself.
Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success.
There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind.
It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe.
A powerful work of visionary literary fiction from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize and National Book Award-nominated modern classic, A Little Life
