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The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man - And Other Stories (Hardcover)
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The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man - And Other Stories (Hardcover)
Series: India List
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In Easterine Kire's stories, the boundaries between magic and
reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical
folktales about human connection. The title story in this
collection is about feeling trapped by other people's definitions
of who we are. The Bear-man finds love in the beautiful and
compassionate Rain-maiden but thinks he would never be good enough
for her. He concludes that if he reveals his true feelings she
would ridicule him like everyone in his life has always done. He
grows gruff and antisocial, believing that he could never find
friendship-least of all, love. The other stories in this collection
represent oral narratives from the people of Nagaland in northeast
India, stories shared privately around a glowing hearth-spirit
stories that the narrators swear are true encounters. While "Forest
Song," "New Road," "River and Earth Story," and "The Man Who Lost
His Spirit" were narrated to the author by local storytellers, "The
Man Who Went to Heaven" and "One Day" are entirely based on Naga
folktales. "The Weretigerman," meanwhile, is woven around the
pre-Christian Naga tradition of certain men becoming dual-souled
with the tiger. In these stories, illustrated in full color by
graphic artist Sunandini Banerjee, Kire brings Nagaland come alive
with her rich portrayal of both the natural and the spiritual
world, which, to the Naga mind, harmoniously coexisted until the
recent past.
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