The far field : a novel / Madhuri Vijay.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Grove Press UK, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Whakaahuatanga: 432 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781611856323
- 9781611854824
- 813.6 23
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | VIJA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | I takina atu | 04/05/2024 | i2191563 |
In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, 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, Shalini 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, Shalini finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. "The Far Field" 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.
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