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The RainMaiden and the BearMan: and Other Stories (The India List),Used
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About the Author Easterine Kireis a poet and novelist who has written several books, includingA Quiet Matriarchy,Bitter Wormwood, A Respectable Woman, and When the River Sleeps. Sunandini Banerjee is a Calcuttabased graphic artist and editor who has illustrated books by Thomas Bernhard, Yves Bonnefoy, Ivan Vladislavic and Cees Nooteboom, among others. Product Description In Easterine Kires 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 peoples definitions of who we are. The Bearman finds love in the beautiful and compassionate Rainmaiden 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 friendshipleast 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 hearthspirit 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 preChristian Naga tradition of certain men becoming dualsouled 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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