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Coming home to Tibet : a memoir of love, loss, and belonging / Tsering Wangmo Dhompa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Shambhala, 2016Edition: First Shambhala editionDescription: viii, 291 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611803297
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS786 .D56 2016
Contents:
Prologue -- 1. The Abode of Snow -- 2. The Wild East -- 3. Town of Nine Lives -- 4. Born in Exile -- 5. Histories of Self -- 6. How to Find a King -- 7. Home on a Throne -- 8. Phayul -- 9. Insider -- 10. Mother -- 11. A Woman's World -- 12. Miracles of the West -- 13. Faith -- 14. Song of Suffering -- 15. Two of Us -- 16. Free Tibet -- 17. Maladies of the Self -- 18. Imagined Country -- 19. I Will Carry the Sky -- 20. Portrait of a Lama -- 21. Lost -- 22. How a Wolf Killed a Lion -- 23. Month of Sin -- 24. The Business of Dogs -- 25. How to Say Goodbye -- 26. Love -- 27. May the Gods Be Victorious -- Epilogue.
Scope and content: When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter's haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
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Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 951.5 DHO 1 Available T00610153
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming and self-discovery.

In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation.
After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother, and a homeland that she knew little about.
Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.

"First published in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India, 2013"--Title page verso.

Prologue -- 1. The Abode of Snow -- 2. The Wild East -- 3. Town of Nine Lives -- 4. Born in Exile -- 5. Histories of Self -- 6. How to Find a King -- 7. Home on a Throne -- 8. Phayul -- 9. Insider -- 10. Mother -- 11. A Woman's World -- 12. Miracles of the West -- 13. Faith -- 14. Song of Suffering -- 15. Two of Us -- 16. Free Tibet -- 17. Maladies of the Self -- 18. Imagined Country -- 19. I Will Carry the Sky -- 20. Portrait of a Lama -- 21. Lost -- 22. How a Wolf Killed a Lion -- 23. Month of Sin -- 24. The Business of Dogs -- 25. How to Say Goodbye -- 26. Love -- 27. May the Gods Be Victorious -- Epilogue.

When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter's haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.

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