Fieldwork / Mischa Berlinski.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: First Picador EditionDescription: 356 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0312427468
- 9780312427467
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Main Library | Fiction | Berlinski, Mischa | Available | 33111005425463 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Fieldwork is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Part one: a good story -- Part two: the story the walkers told of themselves -- Part three: the natives' point of view -- Part four: possessed -- Part five: the pendulum-edge of the soul -- Epilogue.