Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
When his girlfriend takes a job in northern Thailand, Mischa goes along for the ride, finding work as a freelance reporter for an English-language newspaper. One drunken evening a fellow expat tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist serving a life sentence for murder, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead in her prison cell - she has committed suicide. What begins as mild curiosity in the case rapidly becomes an obsession, as Mischa seeks to reconstruct the details of Martiya's life - and death. His search draws him deep into her world. He interviews her colleagues, seeks out the family of her victim, and eventually travels into the Thai hills, into the world of the remote Dyalo tribe who Martiya studied and lived among. What he uncovers is a tragic love story - of a woman who fell in love with the field and then, much later and with fatal consequences, fell in love with one of her subjects.
'Exuberant and inventive, affectionate toward its characters but not indulgent of them.. A quirky, often brilliant debut, bounced along by limitless energy, its wry tone not detracting from its thoughtfulness.' Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books 'A really, really good story... An intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining... An intoxicating journey.' Washington Post 'Fieldwork is that rare thing - an entertainingly readable novel of ideas... Berlinski's narrative is brilliantly plotted and builds to a shattering but entirely credible conclusion.' Los Angeles Times
Mischa Berlinski was born in New York in 1973. He studied classics at the University of California at Berkeley and at Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist in Thailand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843547648 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843547643 |
| Title | Fieldwork |
| Author | Mischa Berlinski |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2008-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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