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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9780812988116
- Book Title
- Eat the Buddha : Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Asia / General, Regional Studies, Asia / China
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy "A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction."-- The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times - The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - NPR - The Economist - Outside - Foreign Affairs Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedong's Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butter--to Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation. Eat the Buddha spans decades of modern Tibetan and Chinese history, as told through the private lives of Demick's subjects, among them a princess whose family is wiped out during the Cultural Revolution, a young Tibetan nomad who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirti, an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who falls in love with a Chinese woman, a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance, and a Tibetan schoolgirl forced to choose at an early age between her family and the elusive lure of Chinese money. All of them face the same dilemma: Do they resist the Chinese, or do they join them? Do they adhere to Buddhist teachings of compassion and nonviolence, or do they fight? Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve one's culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812988116
ISBN-13
9780812988116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19050085617
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eat the Buddha : Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Asia / General, Regional Studies, Asia / China
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds797.77.A63d46 2020
Reviews
"A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction." --Anne Fadiman, The New York Times Book Review "Outstanding . . . A book not only about modern Tibet but one that helps explain the current, poisonous moment in China." -- Financial Times "[Demick's] method is programmatic openness, deep listening, a willingness to be waylaid; the effect, a prismatic picture of history as experienced and understood by individuals in their full amplitude and idiosyncrasy." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "This remarkable book offers a unique insight into Tibet's plight, allowing the reader to understand what it is like for its people to be tossed about in a political storm they neither want nor understand." -- Daily Mail "You simply cannot understand China without reading Barbara Demick on Tibet. Her work is fair-minded, chilling, awe-inspiringly rigorous, and as vivid as cinema." --Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition "Barbara Demick has produced an elegiac narrative of a frontier town that is a hotbed of resistance on the Tibetan plateau. With novelistic depth and through characteristically painstaking research, Demick offers a poignant reminder of the enduring power of memory to illuminate untold histories." --Tsering Shakya, author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows "Barbara Demick's new book is essential reading for anyone interested in China and Tibet. The reporting is rich, the writing is beautiful, and the stories will stay with you. I couldn't put it down." --John Pomfret, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom "Deeply and meticulously researched, Eat the Buddha tells the story of the beautiful area of eastern Tibet . . . Demick is to be given highest honors for her unflinching account, and her readers will be rewarded with a transformative encounter with the real lives of some extraordinary people." --Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor Emeritus, Columbia University " . . . Demick provides the missing human dimension in coverage of twenty-first-century Tibet, including the legacy of resistance that has engendered tragic protests by self-immolation, and all the anguish and paradoxes of lives heavily surveilled by the Chinese government, yet largely invisible to the greater world." -- Booklist
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-044133
Dewey Decimal
951.380049541
Dewey Edition
23
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