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. 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. Personal life Īs of 2019, Vijay lives in Hawaii, where she teaches English.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. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Narrative Magazine and Salon, among other publications.
Vijay said she was surprised that the book was even published in India, where publishers were reluctant to take it on due to the "current climate in the country." She is also a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and has been longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In doing so, she beat out notable writers Perumal Murugan and Manoranjan Byapari. Her debut novel on Kashmir, The Far Field, won the JCB Prize for literature, considered the highest literary award in India. Halfway through the fellowship, she left to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After graduation, she received a Watson Fellowship, which took her to South Africa, Malaysia, and Tanzania while studying people from India living in foreign lands.
In 2009, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lawrence University, where she studied psychology and English. Vijay was born and grew up in Bangalore, India. She is the author of The Far Field, which won the second JCB Prize for literature, India's most prestigious literary award. Madhuri Vijay is an Indian author living in Hawaii. Lawrence University, Iowa Writers' Workshop
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