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The Last Light of Glory Days
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789390477500
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Published: Feb 1 2021
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Description
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'.
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