02806cam a2200397 i 4500 16444 16444 20548255 OSt 20200727124637.0 180619s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 2018028232 9789353570958 DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc a-ii--- PS3622.I492 F37 2018 823 VIJ 23 Vijay, Madhuri, author. The far field : a novel / Madhuri Vijay. New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2019. 432 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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" -- Provided by publisher. Young women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Villages Himalaya Mountains Region Fiction. Jammu and Kashmir (India) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Online version: Vijay, Madhuri, author. Far field New York : Grove Press, 2019 9780802146373 (DLC) 2018032081 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc STL 0 0 ddc 0 0 Stack II 122/5 AIISH AIISH 2020-07-27 0 823 VIJ 22434 2020-07-27 00:00:00 2020-07-27 STL