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Far Afield

Susanna Kaysen

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English
Vintage Books
15 August 1994
A compulsively readable novel of enormous charm swimming in the cuisine and culture of the Faroe Islands from the author of Girl, Interrupted.

Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.

But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone ""study,"" the culture he encounters.

From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish woman the locals want him to marry, Jonathan is both repelled by and drawn into the Faroese way of life. Wry and insightful, Far Afieldreveals Susanna Kaysen's gifts of imagination, satire, and compassion.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Vintage Contemporaries ed
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   308g
ISBN:   9780679753766
ISBN 10:   0679753761
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susanna Kaysen has written the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield and the memoirs Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews for Far Afield

Brilliant . . . a novel distinguished for [its] intelligence, psychological insight, and splendid writing. -- The Atlantic Enthralling . . . at times supernaturally beautiful. A gritty, intellectual, emotionally complex and astute account of an outsider succumbing to the hidden charms of a remote and peculiar island community. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Kaysen softly moves the story forward, chronicling personal change with deft touches of insight and with detail of island life so rich that it seems she had spent a year there herself. -- Chicago Sun-Times Witty, intelligent. . . . An inspired novel about the human condition and the nature of civilization. One of the best novels . . . in some time. -- Boston Magazine


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