Description
- Pub Date: January 2022
- Author : Temsula Ao
- Category: fiction
- Imprint: Speaking Tiger
- Binding: Hardback
- Page Extent: 136
- ISBN: 9789354471353
- Price: `499
ABOUT THE BOOK
In this collection of five spare and poignant stories from Nagaland, Temsula Ao
holds up a mirror to the lives of everyday people beyond the headlines.
A ‘Bihari’ coolie at the Dimapur railway station has been hiding a dark secret
about his adopted son; a grave threat to both their lives. As her grandson is
exiled from the village, a grandmother finally breaks the silence over her
mutilated funeral supeti. A rare lily refuses to bloom year after year because
she was moved from her usual position in the flowerbed into an ornate pot.
Big Father, a uniquely misshapen grandfather tree, becomes the guardian and
protector of an entire village. The matriarch Lily Anne, subjected to racial
slurs by her own mother on account of her mixed parentage, resumes her
position on the ancient reclining chair in her verandah to stare at the eyesore
in her overgrown garden.
The Tombstone in My Garden – with its pared-down prose and gripping, original
stories – reflects Padma Shri award-winner Temsula Ao’s deep understanding
not just of the human condition, but that of all life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Temsula Ao is an Indian poet, short story writer, and ethnographer who
writes in English. She is one of Nagaland’s most eminent contemporary
folklorists, academics and poets, and one of the finest authors of the country.
She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 and the Nagaland Governor’s Award
for Distinction in Literature in 2009. For her collection of short stories
Laburnum for My Head, Temsula Ao received the Sahitya Akademi Award in
2013. She was also the recipient of the Kusumagraj National Literature Award
(for Poetry) in 2015.
Temsula Ao retired as Professor of English from the North Eastern Hills
University which she had first joined in 1975. Her works have been translated
into German, French, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada and Hindi.
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