The counterpart to the wonderfully sharp-tongued figure of Shalini's mother is Bashir's impudent, fearless daughter-in-law, Amina, who steals every scene she's in. Shalini intrudes on Bashir's son's household just as Bashir once disrupted hers. Vijay makes shrewd use of parallels and asymmetries in these mirrored narratives. The book's length led me to expect something slow and atmospheric, but to my surprise I snapped it up in two sittings. Vijay is an effortlessly assured prose writer. Madhuri Vijay's career looks very bright indeed." - MALCOLM FORBES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE This is a stunning novel that skillfully grapples with the complexities of human relationships.
Vijay gives us a brilliant outsider's view of an exotic, off-the-beaten-track realm and a compelling portrayal of a character gradually unraveling due to forces beyond her control. is an expansive and wonderfully immersive work. "Madhuri Vijay's supremely accomplished debut novel, "The Far Field,". "'All finite things reveal infinitude, ' wrote Theodore Roethke in 'The Far Field.' That poem, published in Roethke's final collection in 1964, concludes with the image of 'a ripple widening from a single stone / Winding around the waters of the world.' That's exactly the expanding effect of Madhuri Vijay's debut novel, which is also titled The Far Field.For the vast majority of us, who hear of the troubles in Kashmir only as a faint strain in the general din of world tragedies, The Far Field offers something essential: a chance to glimpse the lives of distant people captured in prose gorgeous enough to make them indelible - and honest enough to make them real."- RON CHARLES, WASHINGTON POST
Vijay smartly resists psychoanalyzing her, implying that the china-shop bulls in our families can be survived but never entirely explained away."-JAN STUART, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The show-stealer is Shalini's mercurial mother, an 'outrageous queen' of capricious gestures. Vijay's command of storytelling is so supple that it's easy to discount the stealth with which she constructs her tale, shifting time frames with seamless ease and juggling a wealth of characters who cling to the heart.
"Vijay probes grand themes-tribalism, despotism, betrayal, death, resurrection-in exquisite but unflowery prose, and with sincere sentiment but little sentimentality." -NEW YORKER
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