On Guinea Nell and her husband Fen are studying indigenous people. They are now on their third group of people, the Tam, who welcome them and allow them to become part of the tribe. They were introduced by Andrew Bankston, another anthropologist who is studying another group there. Fen's mind is on ...
I really loved this story about three anthropologist studying tribes in 1930s New Guinea. Based on the life of Margaret Mead, one of the first female leading anthropologist in the field, Lily King has managed to write a gripping piece of historical fiction. Lily King adresses a lot of issues in th...
Culture is so pervasive that it’s hard to see its influence unless you step outside of it. While Euphoria, by Lily King, is about anthropologists studying the tribes around the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, it is also a story about what happens when Westerners travel into the jungle and forget to...
"He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach."An intoxicating read, with a beautiful mastery of language and character development; the kind of book you find yourself reading aloud to others verbatim because paraphrasing it would not capture the nuance or emotional impact. The story unfolded like a ...
This book might as well have had a warning saying "this won't end well" in the first page, as the ending is obvious from the start. Because of that I was expecting an outcome that is a bit more... I don't know, explosive? It turns out to be a bit lackluster. [spoiler] I'm not sure whether Nell ...
Euphoria, Lily King, narrators Simon Vance, Xe Sands This very well narrated novel is loosely based on the life and lifestyle of Margaret Mead during the time she studied the ethnography of certain tribes in the environs of Papua, New Guinea, on the Sepik River. In the novel, Nell Stone, an American...
2.5 starsTo start with the positives, which are exceptionally well done: Lily King creates an intense, stifling, and deeply unsettling environment; the mud, the stench, the sweat, and the physical discomfort are visceral and suffocating. Much of her research is precise, and the anthropological detai...
These characters and their story grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let go! This book will stay in my heart and mind for a long time to come. I found the anthropology part of the book fascinating. I longed for the passion that these anthropologists found in their work. Since this book is loose...
Adventure, romance, love triangle, despair, intellectual, feminist… Euphoria bundles many themes that appeal to me and I was swept away. Very loosely based on the lives of anthropologists Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson while doing field work in 1930s New Guinea. It seemed like ...
Adventure, romance, love triangle, despair, intellectual, feminist… Euphoria bundles many themes that appeal to me and I was swept away. Very loosely based on the lives of anthropologists Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson while doing field work in 1930s New Guinea. It seemed like ...
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