A Corner of a Foreign Field Guha explored Baloo's story further, the book expanded to become a social history of cricket in India. On the subject of the book, Guha has written, "The making of modern India is its theme, with cricket serving merely as a vehicle, as my chief source of illustrative example." An early edition cover featured a picture of author RK Narayan playing cricket with his nephews and niece. A Corner of a Foreign Field A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport is a 2002 book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha that offers a historical account of
A Sport and a Pastime of Autun in Burgundy. The book is generally regarded by critics as a modern classic. In "The New York Times Book Review", novelist and critic Reynolds Price wrote, "Of living novelists, none has produced a novel I admire more than "A Sport and a Pastime" ... it's as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know." The critic and biographer Adam Begley, in "The New York Times Magazine", called it "extraordinary ... The book feels utterly true." After Salter's death in 2015, the novel has continued to receive critical attention. In 2017, Sarah Hall (writing for "The Guardian") observed that: