Funeral Nights

"A group of friends journey to a remote part of West Khasi Hills, in northeast India, to witness the performance of an ancient Lyngngam funeral ceremony that lasts six days. Concluding with the cremation of a beloved elder, a woman whose body has been preserved in a tree house for nine whole months, this may well be the last time Ka Phor SOrat, the feast of the dead, is performed. By mistake, however, the group arrives too early. So they wait, stuck in the jungle, spending their nights around a fire in the middle of a spacious hut built for them especially, sharing stories in what proves an unexpected journey of discovery."--Publisier description.

About the author

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih was born
in Sohra, Meghalaya. He writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English.
He is the author of Around the
Hearth: Khasi Legends, and the co-editor of Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India.

He has published poems and
stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, the
New Welsh Review, PEN International, the
Literary Review, the Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast
India and more. His awards include
the Northeast Poetry Award (2004), the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah
National Award (2008) and a Tagore Fellowship (2018). He teaches literature at
Northeastern Hill University, Shillong.

Product details

• Authors: Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781913505967
• ISBN: 978-1-913505-96-7
• No. of pages: 1022
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, India, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Myth & legend told as fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction