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Eat the Buddha
Life, Death and Resistance in a Tibetan Town
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ISBN-13:
9781783782659
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.05.2021
Seiten:
325
Autor:
Barbara Demick
Gewicht:
245 g
Format:
198x132x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy (Granta, 2010), her seminal book on North Korea. She is also the author of Besieged (Granta, 2012), her account of the war in Sarajevo, which won the George Polk Award, the Robert F Kennedy Award and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author ofNothing to Envy, a riveting portrait of 21st-century Tibetan life. In Eat the Buddha, Demick chronicles Maos Cultural Revolution and the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern Tibetan plateau.
In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance, defining the country today. In Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau where dozens of Tibetans have shocked the world since 2009 by immolating themselves. Following the stories of the last princess of the region, of Tibetans who experienced the struggle sessions of Mao's Cultural Revolution, of the recent generations of monks and townsfolk experiencing renewed repression, Demick paints a riveting portrait of recent Tibetan history, opening a window onto Tibetan life today, and onto the challenges Tibetans face while locked in a struggle for identity against one of the most powerful countries in the world.