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Author Brauen, Yangzom, 1980-

Title Across many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom / Yangzom Brauen ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2011]
©2011

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  951.504 BRAUEN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BRAUEN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BRAUEN, YANGZOM    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B BRAUEN    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B BRAUEN, YANGZOM    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.895 BRA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 BRAUEN FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG BRAUEN FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  951.504 BR    Check Shelf
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-
Brauen, Yangzom, 1980- -- Family.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
Refugees, Tibetan -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Grandmothers -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Switzerland -- Biography.
Switzerland -- Biography.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9780312600136: $26.99
0312600135
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