Eleven-year-old Tenzin hasn't seen his older brother, Pasang, in five years, so he is thrilled when Pasang unexpectedly returns to their Tibetan village late one night. Now eighteen, Pasang is an educated monk whose return from India provokes the suspicious and ever-watchful eyes of the Chinese authorities. Unbeknownst to Tenzin, Pasang has conspired with their mother to leave again--taking his younger brother with him this time, in search of a better life. At first Tenzin is thrilled to embark on such an adventure, but crushing homesickness soon sets in as the brothers eke out a meager existence begging in the unfamiliar streets of Lhasa, often narrowly dodging the police. They finally scrape together enough money to begin the most harrowing part of their journey: the physically excruciating, dangerous, and illegal trek to a new country on the other side of the Himalayan mountains, where they can be granted refugee status and begin to rebuild their lives. Along the way they suffer abuse at the hands of border police, meet fellow Tibetans from whom they draw strength, and have a chance encounter with a film crew that will change their lives.--From publisher description.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- j951/.5050922
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- a-cc-ti
- ISBN
- 9781554516650 9781554516629
- LCCN
- DS786
- LCCN Item number
- G67 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (154 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00235243 (OCoLC)898085990 (CaOOCEL)448848
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 3
- Foreword 7
- Maps 8
- Introduction 9
- Prologue 11
- CHAPTER 1 15
- CHAPTER 2 30
- CHAPTER 3 46
- CHAPTER 4 58
- CHAPTER 5 71
- CHAPTER 6 80
- Photos 83
- CHAPTER 7 99
- CHAPTER 8 106
- CHAPTER 9 112
- CHAPTER 10 119
- CHAPTER 11 131
- CHAPTER 12 141
- Epilogue 153
- China and Tibet 156
- Buddhism and Tibet 158
- Tibet: An Historical Timeline 160
- Glossary 163
- Acknowledgments 166