In the wake of her mothers 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 Kashmirs 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.

With rare acumen and evocative prose, inThe Far FieldMadhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexualitythrough the lens ofan outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 2019
Publisher:Grove Press
Pages: 464
Language: English
ISBN 13:9780802147967
ISBN 10:0802147968