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.Ĭosmo's one of the best books by BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers to get excited about in 2019. The first and the last chapters of the novel start with: I am thirty. The Far Field is a confession by Shalini, a 30-something living in Bangalore. 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. Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel is a fictional attempt to know Kashmir from both extremesthe latter more than the formerthrough the lense of a woman visiting here for the first time. 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. 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. 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.
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The Goddesses go to war and summon all their Shifters to join in the conflict. When the forces of nature are disrupted, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions rake the world. Jatred is the guardian of the Amulet and key to the Goddesses’ conflict. The Amulet commissioned to bring stability into the world remains hidden and concealed with the help of advanced technology. The other will never let it happen, even if it means sacrificing Jatred and Jasmira’s love. One is on a quest to tilt the scale of power to her side. Two Goddesses, Crystal and Amber command their respective Races. The ancient Shape Shifter Races-the Winter wolves and the Summer leopards- live among humans and fit perfectly into modern life, while keeping secret societies with their own laws and traditions. The path of the star-crossed lovers leads only to destruction. Two Seattle 16-year-old Shape Shifters, Jatred and Jasmira, are torn between following their hearts and protecting the order of the world. 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During 20 she curated the Talks and Debates programme on issues in contemporary arts and politics at London"s Soho Theatre. She has also written a memoir, The Devil Within, published by Vermilion in 2008 and shortlisted for the Mind Book Award, which discusses her experiences living with depression. lieutenant was followed by and The fourth novel in the series is called Treachery and was published on 27 February 2014. In 2010, Heresy was published, her first novel in the series of historical fiction thrillers featuring Giordano Bruno, under the pseudonym South. Her second novel was, about a struggling young playwright, for which she was also commissioned to write the screenplay. She was Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer from 1998 to 2005 and currently writes for The Observer and The Guardian, in addition to writing novels. Merritt graduated in English from Queens" College, Cambridge in 1996. 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