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Subject(s)

• Women anthropologists—Fiction [Browse]
• Missionaries—Fiction [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Fiction [Browse]
• Man-woman relationships—Fiction [Browse]
• Suicide—Fiction [Browse]
• American fiction—21st century [Browse]
• Thailand—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Thrillers (Fiction) [Browse]

Summary note

Following his girlfriend to her new teaching position in Thailand, a young reporter researches the story of American anthropologist Martiya van der Leun, following her suicide in the Thai prison where she was serving a lengthy sentence for murder.

Contents

• Part one: a good story
• part two: the story the walkers told of themselves
• part three: the natives' point of view
• Part four: possessed
• part five: the pendulum-edge of the soul
• epilogue.

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ISBN

• 0374299161 ((alk. paper))
• 9780374299163 ((alk. paper))
• 9780312427467
• 0312427468

LCCN

2006016214

OCLC

69028062

International Article Number

• 9780374299163

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