Spirit Nights

Spirit Nights

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Spirit Nights

Spirit Nights

Author: Easterine Kire

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9789392099496
Rs. 499.00
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What our staff have to say:

"Spirit Nights is a tender story of magic realism or folklore reimagined set in Nagaland. Tola is a keeper of dreams, who must find her own voice and along with her grandson Namu, she must navigate a mysterious darkness and restore the sun."

— Radhika

‘Tiger has eaten the sun!’ screams Tola the seeress when darkness suddenly descends at midday, and the great spiritual struggle begins to restore the light.

An ancient prophecy is fulfilled when darkness envelops a number of villages for days on end. The only thing they know is that a terrible taboo has been violated in the spirit world. Only by crossing the borders between the natural world and the spirit world, and acting with wisdom and courage can they get the light back, but who will dare to do that? 

Accounts of sudden darkness descending on the land exist in at least two tribal histories of the Naga people, the Rengma and the Chang. The story of Spirit Nights is inspired by a story of darkness narrated by the Chang Naga tribe. Names and incidents are borrowed from the original tale, but it follows the path of fiction to achieve its telling.

Tagged with: Easterine Kire / fiction / indian / mythology / northeast / radhika recommends / staff recs

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