These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone - Softcover

Temsula Ao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8189013718 ISBN 13: 9788189013714

Publisher: Penguin India, 2005

Synopsis

More than half a century of bloodshed has marked the history of the Naga people who live in the troubled northeastern region of India. Their struggle for an independent Nagaland and their continuing search for identity provides the backdrop for the stories that make up this unusual collection. Describing how ordinary people cope with violence, how they negotiate power and force, how they seek and find safe spaces and enjoyment in the midst of terror, the author details a way of life under threat from the forces of modernization and war. No one the young, the old, the ordinary housewife, the willing partner, the militant who takes to the gun, and the young woman who sings even as she is being raped is untouched by the violence. Theirs are the stories that form the subtext of the struggles that lie at the internal faultlines of the Indian nation-state. These are stories that speak movingly of home, country, nation, nationality, identity, and direct the reader to the urgency of the issues that lie at their heart.

About this title

About the Author

Temsula Ao is the author of many books of poetry, as well a collection of short stories, These Hills Called Home, and a memoir, Once Upon a Life, also published by Zubaan Books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin India
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8189013718
• ISBN 13: 9788189013714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150