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Coming Home to Tibet

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging

by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
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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.

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  • Release date

    July 12, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780834840102
      • File size: 528 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780834840102
      • File size: 528 KB

  • Languages

    • English

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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