TY - BOOK AU - Nongkynrih,Kynpham Sing TI - Funeral nights SN - 9789389648287 (pbk.) AV - MLCM 2021/50041 (P) U1 - 895.93 NON 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Chennai PB - Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private Limited KW - Khasi (Indic people) KW - Fiction. KW - Khasi (Peuple de l'Inde) KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc. N1 - Novel; Includes bibliographical references.; Also available as an e-book N2 - Funeral Nights is an unconventional novel--a vast collection of stories big and small, not so much about death, but about life, past, present and future, rural and urban, high and low; about admirable men and women, raconteurs and pranksters, lovers and fools, politicians and conmen, drunks and taxi drivers; about culture and history, religion and God, myth and legend. Inspired by the narrative frame of Boccaccio's the Decameron and the Arabian Nights, but adopting a serio-comic style, this is intimate access to a whole world, spectacular in its documentation of tribe's life and culture such as has never benn attempted before. -- Back Cover ER -