More On Tibet

To learn more about the Tibetan experience …

Invaluable overviews are provided in John Avedon’s In Exile from the Land of the Snows and Tsering Shakya’s The Dragon in the Land of Snows.

The following first hand accounts, often poignant and always informative, relate the personal experience of Tibetans during and after the Chinese conquest:

A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands, by David Patt
In the Presence of My Enemies, by Sumner Carnahan
Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelly
Sky Burial, by Blake Kerr
Warriors of Tibet, by Jamyang Norbu
A Season to Purge, published by the International Campaign for Tibet
Tears of Blood, A Cry for Tibet, by Mary Craig
The Voice that Remembers, by Adha Tapontsand and Joy Blakeslee

Why Write Death of Days?

I’ve been asked more than once why I would write a novel that is such a sharp departure from my prior works. The simple answer is that Death of Days may be a departure with respect to its characters and settings, but not with respect to central themes—it examines the same issues with a shift … Continue reading

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Why Write Death of Days?