Tiger Hills: A Novel (PB)

As the first girl to be born into the Nachimanda family in over thirty-five years the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Spirited and strong-willed she befriends the shy Devanna a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Together they grow up amidst the luscious jungles rolling hills and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India; cocooned by an extended family whose roots to this beautiful land can be traced for centuries. Their futures seem inevitably linked but everything changes when one night they attend a tiger wedding. It is there that Devi gets her first glimpse of Machu the celebrated tiger killer and a hunter of great repute. Although she is still a child and Machu is a man Devi vows to marry him one day. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between Devi and Devanna sowing the seed of a devastating tragedy that will change the fate of all three --- an event that has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come.. Told in rich lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society Tiger Hills is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family nation and love.. .