Fieldwork_Berlinski
2009 Longlist

Fieldwork

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead–a suicide–in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder. Curious at first, Mischa is soon immersed in the details of her story. This brilliant, haunting novel expands into a mystery set among the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life became a battleground for the missionaries and the scientists living among them.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Mishca
Berlinski

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Meticulously researched and vividly imagined, Fieldwork describes the fruitless competition between American missionaries and an American anthropologist for the souls of a remote Thai Hill tribe.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Farrar

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