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050	0	0	_aPS3622.I492 _bF37 2018
082	0		_aFIC VIJ _2
100	1		_aVijay, Madhuri
245	1	4	_aThe far field : _ba novel _c/ Madhuri Vijay.
250			_aFirst edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Grove Press _c, c2019
300			_a432 pages _c; 24 cm
520			_aSweeping 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.
650	1	4	_aYoung women _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aMothers and daughters _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aMothers _x-Death _v--Fiction
650	4	0	_aVillages _x-Fiction
651	1	4	_a Jammu and Kashmir (India) _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
655	1	7	_aPsychological fiction
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