Siṃhī: The Becoming

Some books are read. Some are told. Some are carried.

This one was written to be all three.

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Siṃhī The Becoming is the story of a young lioness who loses her mother in a storm and finds shelter in a cave - where a wise serpent, knowing she is afraid, begins to tell her a story. And in that story, there is another story. And in that one, another still.

What begins as a fable at the mouth of a cave opens, across thirteen books, into something larger: a literary novel about becoming, compose...