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Written by Mischa Berlinski - Audio book performed by William Dufris - Unabridged Fiction - 10 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 12 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (February 2007)

NOTE: Tantor RETAIL COMPACT DISC EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, durable plastic albums with a ring binder and individual CD sleeves with full-color cover artwork.

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"A really, really good story is exactly what Fieldwork is…. [A]n intoxicating journey filled with missing souls and vengeful spirits." ---Terry Hong, The Washington Post

"An impeccably structured novel…. Bravura storytelling" ---The Seattle Times

"William Dufris delivers a sterling performance.... His sensitive reading brings the listener inside the three radically different cultures." ---AudioFile

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.

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.

About the Author: 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.

About the Performer: William Dufris began his audio career in London (radio plays, audiobooks, film/animation dubbing, language tapes, etc), where he resided for thirteen years. While there, he had the honor of sharing the microphone in a number of BBC Radio plays with Kathleen Turner, Sharon Gless, Stockard Channing, and Helena Bonham-Carter. These experiences led him to co-found two audio production companies---The Story Circle, Ltd and Mind's Eye Productions. He has also acted on stage and television in the US, the UK and in Germany. William is the original voice of BOB (and Farmer Pickles/Mr. Beasley/Mr. Sabatini) in the popular children's show, BOB The Builder---for US and Canada (Series 1-9). He produces, directs, acts and engineers for his audio theatre company, Rocky Coast Radio Theatre. He has been nominated six times as an audiobook finalist for the APA's Audie Awards, and has garnered fifteen Golden Earphones Awards through AudioFile magazine---in addition to being named "One of the Best Voices at the End of the Century" (also through AudioFile).