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  • Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
  • By: Canyon Sam
  • Narrated by: Donna Postel
  • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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By: Canyon Sam
Narrated by: Donna Postel
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Summary

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.

As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the futuristic "Lhasa", Sam comes to embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her glimpse of Tibet's past through the lens of the women - a visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, and a child bride - affords her a unique perspective on the state of Tibetan culture today - in Tibet, in exile, and in the widening Tibetan diaspora.

Gracefully connecting the women's poignant histories to larger cultural, political, and spiritual themes, the author comes full circle, finding wisdom and wholeness even as she acknowledges Tibet's irreversible changes. The book is published by University of Washington Press.

©2009 Canyon Sam (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

"Visceral and deeply felt, this narrative deserves a read from anyone interested in human rights and the untold stories of oppressed women everywhere." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A book that is sure to illuminate a Tibet so many of us have been longing to know." (Alice Walker)
"[Pays] tribute to the courage and resilience of Tibetan women.... Many readers will be moved by these powerful tales." (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

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