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The Far Field: A Novel of CeylonFind within: Henry and his maid, Henry and his village, Henry and his own salvation. |
Novels by Edie Meidava dream of connection
Two old friends find each other while a father awaits his end on Death Row.
Novel
Bumbling westerner goes to 1930s Ceylon to save the natives. Some historical link to Henry Steel Olcott, one of the West's redactors of Buddhism.
Fiction
An exploration of the mind of evil. "He is quite a creation indeed, this aging anti-Quixote with his residual windmills to tilt at." -- Thomas Kenneally, The Washington Post
An epic, intimate novel in which a blundering westerner goes east. "Complex, imaginative." --Chitra Divakaruni |