- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1843547651
- ISBN-13: 978-1843547655
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
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Excellent Book, Mar 8 2007
By Lee Cheng "Book Dude" - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: Fieldwork (Hardcover)
Well-researched and excellently paced novel. I was fascinated by the level of detail and found the non-judgmental tone of the author refreshing. The novel ended up being an anthropological study of 3 separate tribes--the fictional Dyalo (who appear to be based on the Lisu tribe the novelist studied extensively--look on [...]), American Protestant missionaries, and the curious tribe that lives in figurative ivory towers who spend their lives studying other tribes. The author seems to suggest that the universal tragedy that serves as the basis for the murder mystery aspect of the novel is the result not merely a simplistic clash between East and West, but one that can happen to any peoples who do not share the same world view or to anyone in any culture subject to common human emotions.Terrific read, and highly recommended. I look forward to Mr. Berlinksi's future literary output--maybe something set in Italy, or perhaps involving Haitian voodoo cults?
35 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Why I still read fiction, May 9 2007
By D. C. Carrad "augustabookman" - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: Fieldwork (Hardcover)
Ten stars. Best book I have read in ages. The author's prose style is impeccable and transparent, and he tells an interesting story in a manner fair to all the overlapping and colliding worlds he describes (missionaries, anthropologists, hill tribes, Thais, and his own generation's Western wanderers in the East). This is worth a million grad school MFA seminar meanderings. Terrific reading; hope he writes another book soon and many, many more in the future.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Vivid reading, April 30 2007
By Reader "cvrcak1" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Fieldwork (Hardcover)
I decided to read this book after reading Steven King's review of it in the Entertainment Weekly magazine. I found that the beautiful thing about this book is that everyone who read it has opinion about it. It does not matter if it us the title of the book, the characters in the book, or the attempt to figure out which genre the book can be slated for. It is wonderful that all readers find Mischa Berlinski to be talented and smart young writer with a lot of potential. I have truly enjoyed this book because it speaks on many levels at once: beauty of Asia, complexity of people and cultures they are part of, religious conflict(s), tragedy of human existance no matter how hard we all try to understand it and conform to it in order to fit in the society we are part of. I strongly recommend this book -- it is a wonderful read.
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