Böcker av Avinuo Kire

DescriptionProfoundly compassionate and a masterful storyteller, Avinuo Kire describes aworld that is as breathtaking as it is shattering; where military occupation andmagic co-exist.''The Disturbance'' holds three interconnected stories, set against the backdropof the Indo-Naga conflict that began in the late 1940s and remains unresolvedto this day. Told through the eyes of women from three succeeding generationsof the same family, the stories recount how Naga people remained determinedto hold on to normalcy even in the face of occupation, state torture, thetearing apart of families and racism.In ''New Tales from an Old World'', everyday events in the mountains are infusedwith an element of the supernatural. Naga myths and folk legends slip effortlesslyinto 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 Kamv├╝pfhi, strange spirits and enchantedforests, find a place in contemporary Nagaland with remarkable ease.This volume, both a political declaration and a personal love-note to herland, establishes Avinuo Kire as a writer of formidable skill. The Last Light ofGlory Days is an exquisite unravelling of the tired tropes that cast Nagaland asanother undistinguishable piece in the ''Northeast''.

Tells the tales of women overcoming violence and repression. This collection takes you into a world where spirits converse with humans and where unsuspecting people are drawn into forces greater than themselves.