A review by nightchough
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

4.0

This is a very interesting novel. At its heart is a dramatic triangle between tribal people of northern Thailand, a Dutch anthropologist studying them (and obsessed with their culture), and a family of Christian missionaries trying to convert them. The author's sympathies are handled quite subtly, and the novel is a wonderful character study - multiple characters are fleshed out in detail and have interesting lives. This is an absorbing novel which does a wonderful job of setting time and place.