Now Stephen King, writing in Entertainment Weekly, says that he loves the novel but that the publisher has managed to bury it:
This is a great story. It has an exotic locale, mystery, and a narrative voice full of humor and sadness. Reading Fieldwork is like discovering an unpublished Robertson Davies novel; as with Davies, you can't stop reading until midnight (good), and you don't hate yourself in the morning (better). It's a Russian doll of a read, filled with stories within stories. . . .
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?
More thoughts here. It is a good book, and I highly recommend it too.
