The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (eBook)

Tsering Dondrup (Autor)

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2019
216 Seiten
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54878-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup's career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.

DondrupTsering:

The Trace Foundation's Latse Library's Newsletter calls Tsering Dondrup 'one of the most experienced, radical, and productive authors in the Tibetan world.' Two of his stories were included in the recent anthology Old Demons, New Deities: Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet, ed. Tenzin Dickie (OR Books, 2017).PeacockChristopher:

Christopher Peacock is a PhD candidate at Columbia UniversityTsering Döndrup was born in 1961 in Qinghai, China. He began writing in the early 1980s and has published numerous collections of short fiction and four full-length novels. His work has been translated into several languages, and he is the recipient of a number of Tibetan, Mongolian, and nationwide literary prizes in China.
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Christopher Peacock is a PhD candidate at Columbia University.

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Tsering Dondrup 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 Dondrup's career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Dondrup 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 Dondrup'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 Dondrup 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 Dondrup's tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture.

Inhalt

Introduction1. The Disturbance in D— Camp2. Piss and Pride3. Ralo4. A Show to Delight the Masses5. One Mani6. Mahjong7. The Story of the Moon8. A Formula9. The Handsome Monk10. Revenge11. Nose Rings12. Brothers13. The Last Man to Care for His Parents14. Black Fox Valley15. Notes of a Volunteer AIDS Worker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Reihe/Serie: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Übersetzer: Christopher Peacock
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54878-8 / 0231548788
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54878-6 / 9780231548786