FARTHEST FIELD- PB - Softcover

Raghu Karnad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008115737 ISBN 13: 9780008115739

Publisher: William Collins, 2016

Synopsis

Farthest Field

About this title

About the Author

Raghu Karnad is a journalist based in Delhi and Bangalore. He has worked as a reporter on the Indian magazines Outlook and Tehelka and is a former editor of Time Out Delhi.

Review

“[Farthest Field] is an exquisitely written memoir of the wartime lives of the young Indian journalist's grandfather and two great-uncles, and is so heart-stoppingly beautiful I want all around to read it.”
- Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review

“Raghu Karnad's Farthest Field seemed at first to me a worthy new book, filling up the large blanks in the hegemonic Anglo-American view of World War II, part of a necessary excavation of suppressed and ignored histories. I wasn't prepared for its extraordinary aesthetic qualities and emotional power, as well as its serene mastery of outsize, intransigent material.”
- Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review

“Like a superior commander himself, Karnad marshals and orders a huge range of materials, locations, and actions with apparently effortless skill, making everything cohere not only through a galloping and affecting narrative but, crucially, through a passionate moral core that repeatedly exposes the numerous ways in which Indians were treated as fodder by the Empire.... The writing of history intersects gloriously with several other genres in this moving, eloquent, intelligent work.”
- Neel Mukherjee, Financial Times

“[S]pectacular.... In prose that verges at times on poetry, he writes with the imaginative gift of a first-rate novelist in order to deliver the truth. Romance and the attendant grief of loss permeate the book alongside passages that are unexpectedly moving.... Unforgettable.”
- Juliet Nicolson, Daily Telegraph

“[Karnad’s] fascinating [book] is both a poignant memorial to his lost family and a gripping account of how India contributed to the allied victory and sowed the seeds of its independence.”
- Ian Critchley, Sunday Times

“From the very first page it is the brilliance of the writing that stands out.... It has the stamp of imaginative truth about it, and we can ask nothing more of any kind of writing.”
- David Crane, Spectator

“This book tells us that we all have two deaths: when we die and when we are forgotten. But there is a possibility of two births, the second being re-created in an extraordinary book. This is one of those rare books that bring people alive again. It has been written with imagination and is engrossing to read.”
- Michael Holroyd

Edition details

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008115737
• ISBN 13: 9780008115739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296