Raghu Karnad is an award-winning journalist who lives in Bangalore and New Delhi, India. His writing has appeared in Granta, the International New York Times, the Financial Times, the Caravan, and n+1.
"[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*
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