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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. Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.

The Far Field does both.”-Anthony Marra, author of The Tzar of Love and Techno Few novels generate enough power to transform their characters, fewer still their readers. Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. “ The Far Field is remarkable, a novel at once politically timely and morally timeless.

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Besides filmmaker and environmentalist Pradip Krishen, the 2019 jury comprises author and critic Anjum Hasan, authors K R Meera and Parvati Sharma, and economist and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Arvind Subramanian. The JCB Prize for Literature is presented each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer, as selected by the jury. JCB shortlist 2019 announced: Debut authors Roshan Ali, Madhuri Vijay make the cut The JCB Prize for Literature November 2, 2019Īpart from Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, five authors and six books had made it to the shortlist.These included ‘Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction’ by Roshan Ali, There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari (translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha), My Father’s Garden by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar and two of Perumal Murugan’s books - Trial by Silence and Lonely Harvest - translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.

#JCBPrizeWinner #TheJCBPrize2019 #MadhuriVijay /YDNFMAUq2I The winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature is ’The Far Field’ by Madhuri Vijay.

The parallel theme of the novel is the 24-year-old’s journey to Kashmir in order to understand her deceased mother better. Vijay’s novel narrates the experience of her protagonist Shalini through the prism of historical and socio-political themes, with an emphasis on Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality.