Fieldwork
A Novel

Reading this book by Mischa Berlinski felt much like sitting around the bar (or the coffee shop, if you prefer) with a really cool friend and listening to a super engaging story. You only want him to pause long enough to order another round of drinks. You are that drawn into his world. Your mouth mi......more

Now here’s a thing. When my mate Candi recommends a book, it’s worth listening to. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlininski is a great example of this, so please read her fabulous review of it: [URL not allowed] Fieldwork interweaves 3 narratives: A journalist and his girlfriend living a......more

This was a strange, but intriguing work. The mystery and culture were both elegant and engaging, the characters well drawn and real. However, the author was self indulgent in several ways: most obviously by casting himself as the narrator and most notably by suddenly steering away from the main stor......more

This is without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever read. This story of an anthropologist who murders a missionary in Thailand reads like the best journalistic nonfic, from the details of the remote Thai tribe's customs to the footnotes that referred to specific personal letters that belonged......more

In an afterword to this novel, the author notes that at first he was going to write a nonfiction book about Christian missionary work among a Thai native tribe, but then changed his mind. I'm so glad he did. Fieldwork is one of those rare novels that comes along in which the quality of writing is si......more