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• Title:Coming home to Tibet : a memoir of love, loss, and belonging / Tsering Wangmo Dhompa.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo, author.
  
• Published/Created:Boulder : Shambhala, 2016.
  

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  • Location:ASIAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS786 .D56 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo.
  Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo--Travel--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
  Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo--Family.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Mothers--Death.
  Home--Psychological aspects.
  Place attachment.
  Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel.
  Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Biography.
  Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Social life and customs.
  
• Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
  
• Edition:First Shambhala edition.
  
• Description:viii, 291 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter's haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
  
• Notes:"First published in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India, 2013"--Title page verso.
  
• ISBN:9781611803297 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
  1611803292 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Prologue
  1. The Abode of Snow
  2. The Wild East
  3. Town of Nine Lives
  4. Born in Exile
  5. Histories of Self
  6. How to Find a King
  7. Home on a Throne
  8. Phayul
  9. Insider
  10. Mother
  11. A Woman's World
  12. Miracles of the West
  13. Faith
  14. Song of Suffering
  15. Two of Us
  16. Free Tibet
  17. Maladies of the Self
  18. Imagined Country
  19. I Will Carry the Sky
  20. Portrait of a Lama
  21. Lost
  22. How a Wolf Killed a Lion
  23. Month of Sin
  24. The Business of Dogs
  25. How to Say Goodbye
  26. Love
  27. May the Gods Be Victorious
  Epilogue.