Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Summary |
A memoir and portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet but the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. She lost both her husband and her youngest child on that journey, but the future held an extraordinary turn of events that would forever change her life, the arrival in the refugee camps of a cultured young Swiss man long fascinated with Tibet. Martin Brauen will fall instantly in love with Kunsang's young daughter, Sonam, eventually winning her heart and hand, and taking mother and daughter with him to Switzerland, where Yangzom will be born. |
Subject |
Brauen, Yangzom, 1980-
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Brauen, Yangzom, 1980- -- Family.
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
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Refugees, Tibetan -- Biography.
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Mothers and daughters -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
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Grandmothers -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
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Immigrants -- Switzerland -- Biography.
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Switzerland -- Biography.
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs.
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ISBN |
9780312600136: $26.99 |
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0312600135 |
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