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THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–NOMINATED AUTHOR OF FIELDWORK
Mischa Berlinski’s first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews—Hilary Mantel called it “a quirky, often brilliant debut” and Stephen King said it was “a story that cooks like a mother”—and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world’s most intriguing country: Haiti.
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. But 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 is as fascinating as it is misunderstood—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.
- Sales Rank: #277813 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-03-08
- Released on: 2016-03-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Praise for Peacekeeping
"Powerfully intelligent . . . A politically sophisticated novel that plants, like pushpins, a handful of memorable characters into Haiti’s arid soil . . . [Peacekeeping's] depths reside in Mr. Berlinski’s rich portrait of a society, and his cool, probing writing about topics like sex, politics, journalism, race, class, agriculture, language and fear . . . Berlinski has a knack for writing short, sharp, surreal scenes . . . There’s a good deal of magic in the way that Mr. Berlinski, in command of fact and emotion, pilots this big novel safely home." ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“A formidable piece of work . . . the book’s easy way with local stories and lore bespeaks the familiarity that comes with rich firsthand experience . . . [Berlinski is] a sharp collector of stories, and he has an enjoyable way of threading his narration with story: Berlinski knows how to keep leading us on.” ―James Wood, The New Yorker
“Marvelous . . . Peacekeeping gallops ahead toward the horizon of tragedy, yet the novel is brightened by the author’s sense of the absurdities that saturate an enterprise like a U.N. mission and the weird, byzantine intimacies at the ground level of globalization . . . Peacekeeping, in that sense, is a welcome bearer of enlightenment and a raw reminder of the limits of empathy.” ―Bob Shacochis, The Washington Post
“Mischa Berlinski’s new novel stands out for doing far more than dramatizing news headlines about the beleaguered Caribbean nation . . . Berlinski immerses the reader in an environment so richly detailed that one almost hears the buzz of insects through the pages, but the novel’s plot transcends its tropical setting, resulting in a deeper exploration of what it means to be an observer.” ―Jennifer Kay, Associated Press
"Berlinski's descriptive gifts are terrific . . . The devastating 2010 earthquake naturally figures in the action and elicits Berlinski's most electric, hallucinatory prose . . . Peacekeeping makes you eager for wherever Berlinski will take his own perceptive mode of vision next." ―Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune
"Peacekeeping is a dark, funny, powerful read . . . Readers will be glad they made the trip." ―The Christian Science Monitor
“On the troubled half-island of Haiti, love, power, and poverty collide, as do a tough Florida cop, a beautiful singer, politicians, and the United Nations post-2004 peacekeeping mission . . . [Berlinski] is a kind of heir to Graham Greene and Robert Stone, both for his excellent storytelling and for the way it can reveal a bigger picture.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Berlinski follows his National Book Award-nominated debut with a compelling tale that again immerses readers in the intrigues of an enthralling locale . . . The Haiti [Berlinski] describes is one in which there are always multiple versions of the truth, some we can bear to tell ourselves, and others we cannot." ―Brendan Driscoll, Booklist (starred review)
“In tones that shift effortlessly from journalistic to atmospheric to deeply, darkly funny, Berlinski (Fieldwork) evokes a very detailed sense of place in his second novel . . . the pages are steeped in verisimilitude . . . This is a fascinating and well-plotted novel.” ―Publishers Weekly
“With the eye of an anthropologist and the heart of a novelist, Berlinski vividly depicts the stark contrast of physical beauty and grinding poverty that is the essence of Haiti.” ―Library Journal
Praise for Fieldwork
“Berlinski [is] an effortless conjurer of convincing details . . . [Fieldwork is] an intoxicating journey filled with missing souls and vengeful spirits.” ―Terry Hong, The Washington Post
“That rare thing―an entertainingly readable novel of ideas . . . Berlinski’s narrative is brilliantly plotted and builds to a shattering but entirely credible conclusion.” ―Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
“An impressive feat of literary acrobatics . . . [A] sad and powerful tale . . . Inspired and courageous.” ―Kevin Smokler, San Francisco Chronicle
“An impeccably structured novel portraying two strikingly different milieus . . . Bravura storytelling . . . Fieldwork [addresses cultural] issues with intelligence, wit and grace. And Berlinski delivers the whole package in prose that . . . is perfection itself.” ―Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times
“[Fieldwork] succeeds in evoking the quixotic appeal of both the anthropological and missionary enterprises―of documenting other cultures and of converting them.” ―The New Yorker
About the Author
Mischa Berlinski is the author of the novel Fieldwork, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison M. Metcalf Award.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent. It's fast
By Aimee Reker
Excellent. It's fast, culturally-rich, funny and endearing. You're transported to Haiti and into the homes of locals and their favorite, completely obscure places - right out onto their porch for midday lemonade. It's delicious. A story that overflows with strong, capable women and imperfect heroes. It swings from the heights of voodoo, wealth and power to the rape of a person's dignity, security and hope. One of those stories where you find you've fallen in love with all of the characters - even the bad guys! Several lines in the book hit me in the heart and I've carried with me since: A therapist advises a couple that a couple can only have ONE story of the marriage - not two versions that work for each person. One truth. There is also a bit about privilege and realizing you're not as courageous, giving, or just plain "good" as you'd like. Yet, there is not any preaching..."Getting by isn't a sin". And, my favorite passage in the book - "A good story is the greatest of all literary inventions, the only realm in our existence where for every "Why?" there exists a commensurate "Because....". Those two words, "why?" and "because," might be the best thing our species has going for it." Yes. That. THIS story is a great literary invention. Let's hope we don't have to wait so long for a third novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
"A rich and complex novel"
By Bookreporter
Mischa Berlinski’s second novel, PEACEKEEPING, opens with an explanation of the Reid technique of interrogation. Terry White, an American who lost money in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, has come to Haiti as a United Nations trainer and is a model interrogator, working the suspect Antwan with a combination of scientific labels, choices between the lesser of two evils, and common sense. He waits for Antwan’s confession and --- in a great moment of intimacy between the two men --- the second, honest justification for the crime. Sometimes simply boredom, sometimes desperate need. And Terry responds, always, “I understand.”
PEACEKEEPING takes place in Jérémie, a small Haitian village sitting on the Caribbean Sea on the northern coast. Terry meets an American-educated judge, Johel Célestin, who is likable, reliable and idealistic. At Johel’s engagement party in Manhattan years ago, the musicians who came to play for the event included Nadia, a Creole who has been traded and sold many times since leaving Haiti. She is so slender, so lovely in a silver lame dress. And in a moment Johel forgets his blonde American fiancée when he stares into a pair of blue-green eyes set in a sculpted, unsmiling beautiful face. She has no visa and has run afoul of the law, so she must return to Haiti; Johel quits his New York life and marries her, and they return.
An unnamed writer whose writing is not going anywhere becomes the bystander storyteller as Johel is urged by White and others to run a campaign against the current Sénateur. Nadia, haunted by many demons, capitalized Fear among them, does not want a political life or the dangers of affronting the powerful, corrupt structure in place. Terry also falls into the beautiful blue-green eyes and loves her, all the while encouraging and helping her husband compete in the election.
The judge’s campaign runs on the simple promise that he would repair a much-needed road from Jérémie to Port-au-Prince, giving the poor villagers reliable access to markets and healthcare. Building a road becomes Terry’s dream as well, “one solid thing might be enough for a lifetime.” He makes the judge promise that whatever else happens, he will just drive down that road and remember the good they did together. After the satisfying outcome of the election, the earthquake of January 12, 2010 at 4:53 in the afternoon interrupts and changes everything. There was too much Life and Death, too present and too intense to do anything but be part of Jérémie.
The snapshots of Haitian culture and characters highlight this rich and complex novel. Berlinski shows us the promise and despair, the divisions among descendants of slaves and slave owners, the poverty that is taken for granted, the oppressive heat. And after the unexpected and satisfying conclusion, there is the moment, perhaps, for Terry White to be there once again, listen to Nadia’s story and simply say, “I understand.”
Reviewed by Jane Krebs
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Entertaining and also informative
By Christopher B. Sanford
With Berlinski, it is hard to tell how much is autobiography and how much is fiction. But, after enjoying a well-told story, you come away with a much deeper understanding of the people and culture of the place he writes about -- in this case, Haiti. (The same is true of his previous book, "Field-Work," about northern Thailand.) Berlinski seems to be a keen observer of people and a student of history, so even if not everything in his books is factual, in a deeper sense it is all true. I look forward to reading whatever he writes in the future.
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