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His father, David Berlinski, is a mathematician and a noted critic of mainstream theories of evolution. Mischa Berlinski is also the son of American cellist Toby Saks (1942–2013).
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Fieldwork: A Novel by Mischa Berlinski (2007-02-06)
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Mischa Berlinski
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University of California, Berkeley.
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Berlinski is a University of California Berkeley graduate, and previously worked as a journalist in Thailand. Fieldwork received widespread attention when renowned author Stephen King"s review of it, called "How to Bury a Book," was published in Entertainment Weekly. While King lauds, at length, the novel"s complexity, "narrative voice full of humor and sadness," and suspense, he issues a scathing attack on its publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for poor marketing choices:
Why, why, why would a company publish a book this good and then practically demand that people not read it? Why should this book go to waste? If so, shame on them for their elitism.
King"s review resulted in increased sales of Fieldwork.
In 2007, The New York Review of Books published a positive review of Fieldwork from Hilary Mantel:
Early in Mischa Berlinski"s gripping and entertaining first novel there is a piece of postmodern skittishness which points to a truth that novelists shy away from: their trade embarrasses them. When you first start making things up, you expect that someone is going to tell you to stop.
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