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A carregar... The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (2019)por Dondrup Tsering
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Tsering Dndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Dndrup's career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Dndrup tells tales of hypocritical lamas, crooked officials, violent conflicts, and loyal yaks. His nomad characters find themselves in scenarios that are at once strange and familiar, satirical yet poignant. The stories are set in the fictional county of Tsezhung, where Tsering Dndrup's characters live their lives against the striking backdrop of Tibet's natural landscape and go about their daily business to the ever-present rhythms of Tibetan religious life. Tsering Dndrup confronts pressing issues: the corruption of religious institutions; the indignities and injustices of Chinese rule; poverty and social ills such as gambling and alcoholism; and the hardships of a minority group struggling to maintain its identity in the face of overwhelming odds. Ranging in style from playful updates of traditional storytelling techniques to narrative experimentation, Tsering Dndrup's tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Dondrup is funny and witty. Scathing in some stories. The stories all focus on different aspects of life in modern Tibet--nomadic life, monks and lamas, marriage and children, and the ever-present fact of Chinese colonization is lurking in the background when not in the foreground. Nomads are hassled or at war with Chinese villagers who have been settled onto nomads' traditional lands, settled into towns, deal with cadres and other aspects of Chinese rule, AIDS. Many of the stories have crossover characters (I wish I had taken notes on the characters' names). Another character, Alak Drong, appears in many stories and is an unscrupulous monk, he is very important to Dondrup's criticisms of modern Tibetan Buddhism. And yes, there are even Western tourists who make an appearance.
My two favorite stories--both are excellent 5-star stories on their own-- are A Show to Delight the Masses (a corrupt official must justify his behavior to the Lord of Death; in verse and prose) and Black Fox Valley (about the settlement of nomads). (