
A rave review by Stephen King, this book is fascinating. I am not surprised that it was a finalist for the Booker Prize. With Berlinski's casual and modern voice, he begins to braid together a spongy and rich story about a mysterious murder that Stephen King called "remarkable." A family of Christian missionaries with strange personalities come together with the tribes and history of the lush jungles of Thailand, pungent foods, anthropologists, lush plants and difficult, arduous travels; this book satisfies anyone who has an adventurer's spirit and craves "the pendulum-swing of the soul."