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Winner of the 2023 FICCI India Book of the Year award - a powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer. Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells of a prophecy fulfilled when a number of villages are plunged into endless darkness. A terrible taboo has been violated in the spirit world. A wise elder feels the village crumble as her people are isolated and frightened. She knows that only through acting wit...

We give life, not death..."But humans, humans only know how to kill."Award-winning author Easterine Kire weaves an enchanting tale out of the traditions and folklore and very landscape of her native Naga peoples. A young girl's coming of age threatens to tear the bond between daughter and mother. The first flames of romantic passion bring a different kind of threat... Easterine succeeds in making the universal human condition ring forth from a...

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Stories based on folktales from Northeast India in which magic and reality coexist beautifully.

Atuonuo lives with her widowed mother Visuenuo in Kija, an ancient village of the Angamis. Their lives are hard-regulated by the seasons and by the ceaseless annual labours of hoeing and digging, planting and harvesting. But it is also a life of peace, lived in a well-knit community of wise elders and caring-though sometimes overbearing-neighbours and relatives. This peace is shattered when Kevi, a young hunter, lithe and possessed of an anima...

A beautifully rendered story of one womans life, family and society in contemporary Nagaland.

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After losing all his family in a terrible famine, a man leaves his village with just the clothes on his back, never once looking back. For endless miles he walks through a landscape as desolate as his heart. Until two ancient women who have waited for rain for four hundred years lead him to the Village of Weavers where a prophecy will be fulfilled. A single drop of rain will impregnate the tiger-widow and her son will slay the spirit-tiger. Th...

Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood - the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. This title traces the story of one man's life from 1937 to 2007.

A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest - not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses, and demons of the forest, but there are armed men on his trail as well.