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Peacekeeping audiobook
- By: Mischa Berlinski
- Narrator: Ben Williams
- Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 08, 2016
- Language: English
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Peacekeeping Audiobook Summary
“Ben Williams’s narration couldn’t be more perfect for this tragicomic novel of Haiti. Williams perfectly inhabits the wry, observant, somewhat detached traveling spouse of an aid worker. Williams’s talent is not just with the subtle inflections in English and Creole that give personality and heart to the colorful characters…His conversational delivery also enhances the listener’s understanding of Haiti’s confounding mix of politics and superstition.” — AudioFile Magazine
THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND AUDIOBOOK 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 Jeremie, 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 Senateur 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.
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Peacekeeping Audiobook Narrator
Ben Williams is the narrator of Peacekeeping audiobook that was written by Mischa Berlinski
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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Mischa Berlinski is the author of Peacekeeping
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Peacekeeping Full Details
| Narrator | Ben Williams |
| Length | 14 hours 13 minutes |
| Author | Mischa Berlinski |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | March 08, 2016 |
| ISBN | 9781427271242 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Peacekeeping is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427271242.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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