Book description
Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the action takes place in the Northeast-the region that spreads from Assam to Arunachal today. The East India Company is seeking to make inroads into the region and the local people-in particular the Abor and Mishmee tribes-fear their coming and are doing all they can…
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1 author picked The Black Hill as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have never read a novel like this before, one that shows, in a dream-like language and imagery, two stunningly different worldviews colliding with strangeness and violence for the very first time.
Set in the middle of the 19th century in the dense forests, grand river valleys, and impassable mountains of the Eastern Himalayas, Black Hill manages to combine the experiences of a rebellious young woman belonging to a pre-literate, deeply instinctual and elemental culture, with the true story of a French priest trying to find his way through that forbidding…
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