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Booklastic: The Far Field

August 28, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Book cover with title in bold and orange and red flowers as background

We’re not fantastic…we’re booklastic!

Booklastic meets on the last Wednesday of every month. Our August read is The Far Field, by Madhuri Vijay. Check out the plot summary below!

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. 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. 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. 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.

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Plot summary adapted from the publisher.

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Details

Date:
August 28, 2019
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:

Island

Recommended for

Adults

Branch

Kauai – Princeville
4343 Emmalani Dr.
Princeville, HI 96722 United States
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Phone:
808-826-4310

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