Laburnum for My Head

Eight stories set among the people of India's North East, moving between myth and the present. In the title story, a widow who never managed to grow a laburnum in her garden wants one planted over her grave. A hunter is haunted by the spirit of an animal he killed; a quick-witted servant boy sells an airfield to trusting villagers; a letter found on a dead insurgent blurs the line between the rebel and a poor villager; a village woman's simple question unsettles an army officer. Other stories trace a secret that follows three generations of women, a girl who loses her lover to the fight for a homeland, and a caterpillar that grows wings.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

India

First published

2009

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9780143066200 (Penguin Books India, India)

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