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Mamang Dai

Born 1957 · India

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  • Written in English

    Sahitya Akademi 2017 · Winner

    The Black Hill

    The Black Hill

    Mamang Dai · 57 when first published

    Novel · 296 pages · Historical, Love

    AI-generated summary:In the mid-nineteenth-century hills between Assam and Tibet, an Abor girl, Gimur, runs away with Kajinsha of the Mishmee tribe, while a French priest, Father Krick, keeps trying to cross their land to found a mission in Tibet.