一部探究科學倫理、文化價值與真實人性的反思之作！
1950年，年輕的Norton Perina博士跟隨人類學家Paul Tallent遠赴密克羅尼西亞，企圖找尋傳說中被世人遺忘的部落。此趟旅程非常順利，除了找到部落，還意外地發現一群住在森林裡的人，這些被稱為「The
Dreamers」的人種壽命可以延續得非常長，可是心智衰老的速度卻與外界一般人相當。Perina推論他們長壽的原因可能是食用島上一種世界罕見的龜類，在無法抗拒永生的誘惑下，他偷偷宰殺了其中一隻，並將牠的肉私運回美國。
Perina博士利用實驗證明他的推論無誤後，瞬間聲名大噪，成為舉世知名的學者，甚至獲得科學界的桂冠諾貝爾獎。但他旋即明白，如此令人稱羨的際遇需要付出多麼慘痛的代價。當情勢越來越失控，原本與世隔絕、如仙境般的小島被藥商、科學家破壞怠盡，Perina該如何收拾這一盤殘局？（文／博客來編譯）
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 is an anthropological adventure
story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It is a book that instantly catapults Hanya Yanagihara into the
company of young novelists who really, really matter.
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. He scientifically
proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his
own dem
