Sky train : Tibetan women on the edge of history

by Canyon Sam

Paper Book, 2009

Status

Available

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009.

Description

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.

Awards

PEN/Open Book (Winner — 2010)

Language

Barcode

1564
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