• Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007)
• Bard Fiction Prize (2005). (2006— )
• Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman
• Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2001
• Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2006

• (reprint Harcourt, 2002, ISBN 9780618219162 )
• (reprint Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 9780312425753)

Criticism

Edie Meidav is a student of human bewilderment. In her first novel...about an American called Henry Gould trying to establish a utopian community in the British colony of Ceylon...she's woven the blundering figure of a holy fool into a bristling tapestry of local life. The Far Field is historical fiction without a shred of nostalgia, and even its sometimes predictable plot is finally justified by Meidav's scarifying emotional honesty and visceral sense of place.

But while Meidav's lens is panoramic, she manages to keep her focus human in scale, providing her readers with a virtual novelistic treatise on the colonial experience, articulated in the accumulated tiny, believable details of her characters' daily lives.