LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD; 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KITSCHIES PRIZE; 2014 (GOLD TENTACLE) The brooding; bold and brilliant first novel from the Man Booker and Bailey's Prize-shortlisted author of A Little Life. 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 rumoured 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...