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by Mischa Berlinski (Author), William Dufris (Narrator)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc; Library ed edition (20 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400133645
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400133642
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 16 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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"'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" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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An impressive feat of literary acrobatics... This sad and powerful tale is an inspired and courageous book. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Anthropological and mission work among a hill tribe in Thailand, 24 Nov 2008
By Ralph Blumenau (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fieldwork (Paperback)
The American journalist Mischa Berlinski is the narrator in this novel, so at times one feels it might be an autobiography, especially as in an autobiography you might find the rambling structure you find in this book; and a number of footnotes contribute to that impression. But in a note at the end the author tells us that `none of this stuff happened to anyone'.

The thread that holds the book together is the fictional Berlinski's obsessive attempt to unravel the mystery of Martiya van der Leun, an American-educated anthropologist whom he had heard about but never met, who had been working with the animist Dyalo hill tribe in Northern Thailand, had been in prison for murder and had apparently committed suicide there.

(If you google Dyalo, the references are all to this novel. Its name is invented, but the author's note suggests that the inspiration for it might be a tribe called the Lisu. The other neighbouring tribes mentioned in the book all really exist.)

The fictional Berlinski goes to meet as many people as possible who knew Martiya; and he then gives you such long and detailed histories of their lives that we quite forget about Martiya: at one stage there is no mention of her for some ninety pages.

The person she was accused of having murdered was one David Walker. We learn more and more about Martiya's life - and very interesting it is - without getting any clues, until very near the end, to the mystery of why she killed David. In fact the first meeting between Martiya and David comes just seventeen pages before the conclusion of the book.

David belonged to an extended American family, several of whom were or had been Christian missionaries. Mischa seeks them out, and we get the life story of David's missionary parents, whom Mischa meets, and of his missionary grandparents. Though one wonders why were are told all this (only one incident in the parents' life, briefly alluded to, will have a bearing on Martiya's story), it is still very well and atmospherically done. The author Belinski writes very well, brings people very much to life and gets the reader interested in them. These missionaries may be a little odd in their total faith, their belief in evil spirits, their prayerfulness and their expectation of an imminent Rapture; but, unlike those in, say, Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, they are presented affectionately and without mockery or condescension.

Author Belinski, we are told, has worked as a journalist in Thailand, so he is clearly knowledgeable about that country and beautifully evokes its sights and its atmosphere. Though he curiously spells the author of the Golden Bough as Frazier, he is also knowledgeable about anthropology, its theory as studied in academic institutions and its often far from glamorous field work practice - but every now and again an anthropologist goes `native'. One wonders, of course, whether he has invented the dyal, the rice planting rites of the Dyalo people; perhaps he has based them imaginatively on the customs of some other tribes described by Sir James Frazer: at any rate he has made them sound very convincing. They play a crucial role in the story, but, characteristically, we learn about them only on page 237, three-quarters of the way through.

Despite its structural oddities, this is a book full of life. I have enjoyed it very much and was fully involved with it.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A cliffhanger, 3 Jun 2008
By Jovenus (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FIELDWORK (Paperback)
I picked up this book because it was about Thailand and the hill tribes. I had wandered as far as Chiang Mai and had always inspired to go beyond the city to the mountains to visit the tribes. I love books which relate two (or three) unseemingly disjointed subjects and concocted them into a juicy, suspense story. What has Anthropology got to do with Christian missionaries? The answer is : A lot! The chapters are segmented into both point of views of the anthropologist and the family of missionaries, without losing sight of leading the readers towards a credible conclusion, every findings is a step closer to why the anthropologist did what she did. Sad, tragic, insightful, hilarious ... all rolled into one. This book is brilliant. If you are tired of trashy, time wasters novels in the market, try reading "fieldwork", the short title may not conjure much imagination, but you will come out both more informed (a book with wealth of research information) and gratified (suspense novel with mystery and family saga). Thumbs up, can't wait to read what Mischa has to write in the future.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a very good novel, 1 July 2009
By kika69 "kika69" (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fieldwork (Paperback)
very interesting, very well researched, keeps you interested at every turn, very well written - i personally found the section on the missionaries a bit too long, because i am not very appreciative of that type of religious people, but the other two strains of the novel (the narrator's life in Thailand and the Anthropologist's mystery) are well developed and fascinating.
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