Echoes rrom forgotten mountains: Tibet in war and peace (Record no. 356520)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670094660
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Transcribing agency AACR-II
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Classification number 954.515 NOR
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Personal name Norbu, Jamyang
9 (RLIN) 5459
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Title Echoes rrom forgotten mountains: Tibet in war and peace
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Gurugram, Haryana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Random House (Viking)
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2023
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Extent 891p.
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Summary, etc. Jamyang Norbu has taken the stories of 'forgotten' Tibetans--resistance fighters, secret agents, soldiers, peasants, merchants, even street beggars--and skillfully worked their myriad accounts into a single glorious 'memory history' of the Tibetan struggle. He uses recollections from his own childhood to ease the reader into an immersive understanding of the complexity of Tibet's modern history: the Chinese invasion, the uprisings in Kham and Amdo, the formation of the Four Rivers Six Ranges Resistance Force, the March '59 Lhasa Uprising, the CIA supported Air Operations, the Nyemo peasant Uprising of 68/69 and the Mustang Guerilla Force in northern Nepal, where Norbu later served.<br/><br/>He writes of leaving home to drive tractors at refugee settlements, educate refugee children, produce plays at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, and collect intelligence for the Tibetan Office of Research and Analysis (TORA) and for France's External Intelligence Agency (SDECE). He uses these anecdotes not so much as autobiography but as a framing device to recount the lives, deeds and, too often, tragedies of the many Tibetans he encountered and befriended throughout his life--nearly all of whom played vital roles in shaping the recent history of their country but whose contributions are still unsung and forgotten. Jamyang Norbu's lifelong commitment to collecting and orchestrating the 'echoes' of these many forgotten voices from the past has resulted in a lyrical, learned and compassionate book that could well be described as the prose epic of the Tibetan freedom struggle.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Hstory- South Asia- Tibet
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History-Tibetan Nationalism
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  Not Missing Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2024-09-05 1299.00   954.515 NOR 176652 2024-09-05 2024-09-05 Books

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