La Gente En Los Árboles / The People in the Trees (Paperback)

from monerlS

Stichworte Gegenwartsroman, Mikronesien, Forschung, anthropologisch, Tierquälerei, Pädophilie, Kindesmissbrauch, Fiktionalisierung der Geschichte des Nobelpreisträger Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Handlung 4 interessant, benötigt etwas zu lange im Aufbau, um die Story darzustellen Sprache & Stil 3 wun...

from JReynolds1959

Norton Perina is a scientist who is brought to an island to study a very unknown race of people. He discovers many things about their culture and learns that they are much older than we are accustomed to people being. He learns the secret of their long lives and earns many awards in doing so. In ...

from Magatha

Holy crap. For a detailed description of this book, let me just refer you to the reviews already written by others, because they are very insightful. I should have hated this book, but I didn't. I do not know how Hanya Yanagihara did it, but she wrote a novel from the point of view of a hideous ...

from whitewavedarling

Yanagihara has crafted a frighteningly believable, and an incredibly strange, story with this novel. Maybe more than any other novel I've read, it truly reads as the piece of nonfiction/memoir it is meant to represent--what I mean by this is that you'll have to remind yourself, over and over agai...

from bibliovermis

This book had one of the most deplorable narrators I've ever encountered, yet was wildly engrossing. Usually hating the main character is a barrier to entry for me, but in this novel-which is written as the memoir of a narcissistic, arrogant, misogynist, ruinous medical scientist named Norton-the...