Funeral Nights - Sing Nongkynrih, Kynpham
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"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.…mehr

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"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.
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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.