The
far field
a novel
Vijay, Madhuri
creator
author.
text
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
nyu
2019
First edition.
monographic
eng
432 pages ; 24 cm
"Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Kalyani is brought face to face with Kashmir's politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And when life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence, Kalyani finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. With rare acumen and evocative prose, in The Far Field Madhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion" --
Madhuri Vijay.
a-ii---
Young women
Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Fiction
Mothers
Death
Fiction
Villages
Himalaya Mountains Region
Fiction
Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Fiction
PS3622.I492 F37 2018
813/.6
Far field
Vijay, Madhuri, author.
New York : Grove Press, 2019
(DLC) 2018032081
9780802128409 :
0802128408 :
2018028232
DLC
180619
20190225144656.0
2018028232
eng