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Twenty years after her first encounter with Tibet, Canyon Sam re-visits the place she loves. Even as she disembarks China’s infamous Sky Train, the author confronts a series of changes – all seemingly irrevocable
– the devastation of Lhasa’s once-pristine landscape; the corrosion of cultural artefacts; the slow death of a vibrant civilization. In an attempt to acknowledge the past, the Chinese-American writer documents her spiritual home by recording the voices of four Tibetan women – a
visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, a child bride.
Gracefully connecting these women’s poignant histories to larger cultural, political and spiritual themes, Canyon Sam finds wisdom and wholeness, as she comes to grips with the future. In a style that is uncompromisingly
honest, yet tender and lyrical, Sky Train is a love-song to ‘The Place of the Gods’.
ISBN - 9789381626177
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Pages : 372
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