Funeral nights / Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih.

By:

Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing, 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chennai : Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private Limited, 2021Description: xii, 1009 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789389648287 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

23 895.93 NON 018325

LOC classification:

MLCM 2021/50041 (P)

Also available as an e-book.Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	895.93 NON 018325 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018325

Novel.

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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

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