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The Tree With Eyes and Other Stories

by Bela Negi

Lives shaped by the western Himalayas

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Lives shaped by the western Himalayas

Set in the western Himalayas, these stories connect intimate forms of suffering and isolation with changes in the surrounding landscape. Across the collection, bodily pain, grief, strained time, migration and the fading sense of home shape everyday lives. The mountains function as an active presence in these accounts, alongside ecological change and shifting human ties. The title story’s image of a newly married woman watching a tree from her window gives the collection’s broader concerns with loneliness and belonging a particular focus.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction rooted in the western Himalayas and Uttarakhand.
  • Readers drawn to short-story collections exploring grief, migration, ecological change and belonging.
  • Readers seeking stories centered on human relationships and the pressures of changing circumstances.

Themes

Grief and lossMigration and belongingEcological changeLoneliness and isolationThe human relationship with landscape

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About the Book

COMPELLING, PUNCHY STORIES THAT FOREGROUND HUMAN EMOTION.

Emerging from the very marrow of the western Himalayas, these are stories about grief and loss. Pain and madness. Humour and absurdity.

Here a man and his mother witness the landscape around their home change gradually, while persistent pain slowly eats away at his body. A couple wait for eternity to be with each other, while the world makes demands on their time and youth. In the eponymous story, a newly married young woman looks out the window at a tree and tries to ignore the sounds of her own intensifying loneliness. A runaway returns to his childhood home and finds it forever changed. A man searches for his old grandmother one night and discovers an open secret.

Narrated with unusual empathy and gentle understanding, these are tales of lives shaped by migration, ecological change and the slow erosion of belonging. The mountains here are not a backdrop but a living presence-at times companion and at times an unsettling force.

 

About the Author

 

Bela Negi is a Nainital-based film-maker and producer who explores the complexities of Uttarakhand's mountains through her work.

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