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Berlinski, Mischa

 
9780374299163: Fieldwork
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ISBN 10: 0374299161 ISBN 13: 9780374299163
Editorial: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2007

Sinopsis

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.

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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. He lives in Rome.


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. He lives in Rome.

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Editorial
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0374299161
ISBN 13 
9780374299163
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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