The Distaste of the Earth imaginatively weaves an ancient world of Khasi kings and queens, warriors and plunderers, and chronicles the sorrows of a young man caught up in that world.

This layered fictional history of a land where a queen falls in love with a pauper, where animals recount their tales of woe against man, and where retribution?destructive to both good and bad?arrives, sooner or later, begins in a pata, the local bar, whose patrons form a microcosm of the world around them.