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" - Provided by publisher. 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. 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.
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. 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. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Far field DDC classification: 823 VIJ LOC classification: PS3622.I492 | F37 2018 Summary: "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. By: Vijay, Madhuri Material type: Text Publisher: New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2019 Description: 432 pages 24 cm Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 9789353570958 Subject(s): Young women - Fiction | Mothers and daughters - Fiction | Mothers - Death - Fiction | Villages - Himalaya Mountains Region - Fiction | Jammu and Kashmir (India) - Fiction Genre/Form: Domestic fiction.
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