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The People in the Trees: A Novel
The People in the Trees A Novel
Author: 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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385536776
ISBN-10: 0385536771
Publication Date: 8/13/2013
Pages: 384
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4.3 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 19
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This was a very difficult book to read, in that it is an extremely well-constructed meditation on moral and cultural relativism and ambiguity. In a way this book was a perfect companion to Euphoria by Lily King, addressing many of the ethical questions about historical anthropology in a way that King's volume did not (not to its detriment; Euphoria was an extremely well-written character-driven story). The structure, the plotting, the delivery...I had basically no complaints about the way this book was put together. Challenging, unsettling, and at times horrifying? Certainly. Worth the emotional struggle? Definitely. Hard to believe this is a debut novel-Yanagihara writes as though she's been putting out books for years.
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