<![CDATA[Fieldwork: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Fieldwork: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172707594m/209851.jpg 209851 11 A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one of Thailand’s English-language newspapers. 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 fifty-year sentence for murder. Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of Martiya’s crime. His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology—and into the family history of Martiya’s victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back. Finally, Mischa’s obssession takes him into the world of the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life becomes a battleground for two competing, and utterly American, ways of looking at the world. Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, Fieldwork is a novel about fascination and taboo—scientific, religious, and sexual. It announces an assured and captivating new voice in American fiction. 203114 2007 Fieldwork: A Novel total:971|5:151|4:426|3:281|2:88|1:25| 971 3503 1624 323 2 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 09:49:45 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 09:58:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 03:47:03 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 00:57:14 -0700 2008
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it’s an interesting premise: mischa berlinski (and we could ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Aug 09 16:58:47 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 17:00:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 26 10:02:09 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 10:03:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 09:39:33 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 20:44:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 24 14:43:17 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 08 08:15:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:39:37 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 18:42:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 01 19:16:55 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 05:16:27 -0700 2008
I found the book to be interesting, rye and fast-paced. The only part I thought slowed down the book was the backg...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 16 14:03:19 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 14:04:19 -0800 2009
When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one
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My only point of contention with the narrative is when the narrator, and he does this often, comments on how "different", how "...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 14:53:13 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:06:18 -0800 2009
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