Vijay, Madhuri creator author. text novel Fiction enk 2019 2020 monographic eng 432 pages : 20 cm In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote village in 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. adult MADHURI VIJAY First published in the USA and Canada in 2019 by Grove Atlantic. First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Grove Press UK. Young women Fiction Mothers Death Fiction Villages Jammu and Kashmir India Fiction 813.6 9781611854831 PPAK 201122 20201122153558.0 eng