Author

Hanya Yanagihara

2 award wins, 8 nominations across 2 books.

Hanya K Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974)[3] is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii.[4]

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A Little LifeThe People in the Trees
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A Little Life

2 Awards Won6 Nominations

Published 2015-03-10 · 800 pages

A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller. A Little Life pdf

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The People in the Trees

2 Nominations

Published 2013-08-13 · 496 pages

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.

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