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100			_aVijay, Madhuri _913113
245			_aThe far field
260			_bFourth Estate India _aNoida _c2019
300			_a532 p.
365			_aINR _b499.00
520			_aIn the wake of her mother's death Shalini a privileged naive and restless young woman from Bangalore sets out for a remote village in 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 track him down. But as soon as Shalini arrives she is confronted with the region's politics as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. As 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 have dangerous repercussions for the people she has come to love. With rare acumen and evocative prose in The Far Field Madhuri Vijay gives a potent critique of Indian politics and class prejudice through the lens of a guileless outsider while also offering up a profound meditation on grief guilt and the limits of compassion.
650			_aIndia--Jammu and Kashmir _913114
650			_aMothers--Death _912841
650			_aMothers and daughters _913115
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