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Feb 06, 2008 Hilary marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Mischa Berlinski, an American freelance journalist living in Thailand, meets with an old friend and hears the fascinating story of Martiya van der Leun. A renowned American anthropologist who lived with the primitive Dyalo tribe in a remote mountain village near the Thai-Burmese border, Martiya committed suicide while serving a life sentence for murder in the Chiang Mai Central Prison. Her victim was David Walker, the youngest member of a family of missionaries also living with the Dyalo. Sensin ...more

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May 30, 2010 Trish rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Not that great. It started out okay, but I stopped caring really quickly and had a hard time getting through it because there wasn't really one straight thought path. The author gave a lot of detail about people who dropped out of the story and jumped around a lot between characters and time periods. When I forgot whose part of the story was being told, I didn't care enough to go back and figure it out, just tried to muscle through it.
Eh. On to the next. ...more

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