Fieldwork
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Fieldwork is a 2007 novel by Mischa Berlinski. It was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction, and it was Berlinski's first novel. A narrator named Mischa Berlinski, living in Thailand, learns that an American anthropologist he once heard of, Martiya van der Leun, has died in prison after confessing to murder. He investigates her life, her fieldwork among a hill tribe called the Dyalo, and the missionary family whose son she killed.
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