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`A brave and beautiful story' --Image Magazine
`We have a glimpse here of Tibet, before and after the Chinese occupation, that is unsentimental and down to earth. Yangzom Brauen has given us an informative and even surprising picture of a place and time that most readers will never see. I have been to Tibet six times and almost everything about the country described in Across Many Mountains was new to me' --Literary Review
`We have a glimpse here of Tibet, before and after the Chinese occupation, that is unsentimental and down to earth. Yangzom Brauen has given us an informative and even surprising picture of a place and time that most readers will never see. I have been to Tibet six times and almost everything about the country described in Across Many Mountains was new to me' --Literary Review
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The extraordinary story of three Tibetan woman, whose lives have seen a daring escape from Tibet in the forties, endurance in the refugee camps of India and a remarkable transformation in the West
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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highly recomended - an easy read starting in tibet and spanning 3 generations of women - really interesting from many perspectives.i was disapointed though that there wasnt more written about how the escape and move effected the daughter in future life and the granddaughter..the latter years i felt got more glossed over and i felt there was a lot more material there..but still its an excellant read - totally inspiring about forgiveness and non detatchment.
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This moving personal family history covering three generations of Tibetan women conveys the tragedy of the Chinese occupation of Tibet with more power than news reports or statistics. The details are different, but in a way it is a universal story not just of Tibet, but of every culture that has been purposely suppressed by another. Author Yangzom Brauen chronicles the lives of her grandmother, who has maintained the life of a Tibetan nun in all the years she's had to live abroad, her mother, who had to make a dangerous escape from Tibet as a young child, and herself, an actress and Tibetan activist. After her mother met and eventually married a Swiss man in India, Brauen was born in Switzerland, giving her a foot in both Tibet and the West and an ideal vantage point for writing this account. While in many ways Brauen has lived the life of a typical Westerner, she grew up celebrating Tibetan holidays, eating Tibetan food and listening to her grandmother's and mother's stories of life in Tibet and in exile. Across Many Mountains, which manages to be both heartbreaking and inspiring, begins when Brauen's grandmother was a young girl in a small, remote Tibetan village and continues through the 2008 Tibetan uprising and 2010 earthquake. I stayed up late reading this fascinating book, completely wrapped up in the lives of all three women.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I have not read this book yet, because it has been appropriated by my friend. I bought it because it was discussed with the author on Women's House. My friend is really enjoying reading it and finding it very interesting, if not always comfortable reading. She says it is about a part of the world which is little known and as it is from first-hand experience gives a realistic perspective. If you are interested in places, people, cultures and political issues then this makes a very good read.
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