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Sto caricando le informazioni... Peacekeeping (edizione 2016)di Mischa Berlinski (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaPeacekeeping: A Novel di Mischa Berlinski
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I think I enjoyed this book although not as much as his [b:Fieldwork|209851|Fieldwork|Mischa Berlinski|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1420767456l/209851._SY75_.jpg|203114]. Alas, it's been so long since I read it...not much of a review. ( ) Political bassa-bassa Peacekeeping: A Novel by Mischa Berlinski (Sarah Crichton, $27). When a Florida deputy sheriff fails at politics, he ends up in Haiti, working for the U.N. peacekeeping force charged with policing the troubled town of Jérémie. Thus begins Mischa Berlinski’s insightful second book, Peacekeeping: A Novel. Based on his own experiences as an American journalist in Haiti, Berlinski tells the story of outsiders mixing—however well-meaning they are—in to longstanding issues of power, governance and culture. As former deputy Terry White, the protagonist, advises his friend, a local judge, on politics (with readers bearing in mind that he’s already failed at politics in Florida, perhaps not the best credential for a political advisor), the narrator, a cynical writer, gives us a realistic picture of how things work in Haiti. Weirdly funny and uncomfortably honest, this story of how the simple act of constructing a road from the town to Port au Prince is bogged down in politics, corruption and good-intentioned meddling clearly demonstrates how–for the people who actually live in poverty and corruption–attention is almost as bad as neglect. Reviewed on Lit/Rant: www.litrant.tumblr.com I was looking forward to reading this book as the write up intrigued me. Unfortunately I was a bit disappointed, I found that the story just didn't hold my interest. The characters were well written and I love the cover illustration, but that was about all. I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giraux via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Hilary Mantel called Fieldwork "a quirky, often brilliant debut, bounced along by limitless energy, its wry tone not detracting from its thoughtfulness." Stephen King said it was "a story that cooks like a mother." Now Mischa Berlinski returns with his second novel, Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world's most intriguing country. When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. When Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster. Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski's gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that we neither understand nor control--and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality"--"A UN policeman in Haiti gets caught up in a web of corruption"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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