ISBN 9789390477456|Paperback|184 pages|2021|Speaking Tiger
The Last Light of Glory Days: Stories from Nagaland by Avinuo Kire is a collection of stories of Nagaland--a place where military occupation and magic co-exist.
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ISBN 9789390477456|Paperback|184 pages|2021|Speaking Tiger
The Last Light of Glory Days: Stories from Nagaland by Avinuo Kire is a collection of stories of Nagaland--a place where military occupation and magic co-exist.
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Profoundly compassionate and a masterful storyteller, Avinuo Kire describes a world that is as breathtaking as it is shattering; where military occupation and magic co-exist. ‘The Disturbance’ holds three interconnected stories, set against the backdrop of the Indo-Naga conflict that began in the late 1940s and remains unresolved to this day. Told through the eyes of women from three succeeding generations of the same family, the stories recount how Naga people remained determined to hold on to normalcy even in the face of occupation, state torture, the tearing apart of families and racism. In ‘New Tales from an Old World’, everyday events in the mountains are infused with an element of the supernatural. Naga myths and folk legends slip effortlessly into tales of hard farm life, childhood terrors and adventures in the countryside, love and mourning. In these stories, hunters, predators, Tekhumevi (weretigers), secret potions, shadowy-demons called Kamvüpfhi, strange spirits and enchanted forests, find a place in contemporary Nagaland with remarkable ease.
This volume, both a political declaration and a personal love-note to her land, establishes Avinuo Kire as a writer of formidable skill. The Last Light of Glory Days is an exquisite unravelling of the tired tropes that cast Nagaland as another undistinguishable piece in the ‘Northeast’.
Author:
Avinuo Kire
ISBN:
9789390477456
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
184
Year of Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
The author is a writer and teacher. She has authored an anthology of short stories, The Power to Forgive and Other Stories, a collection of poetry, Where Wildflowers Grow, and has documented and co-authored a collection of oral narratives titled Naga Heritage Centre: People Stories. Avinuo lives in Kohima, Nagaland, where she teaches English at Kohima College.
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