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"Conjuring Tibet — a wonderful book that tells mythically and realistically a story about Tibet in the nuclear age. Charlotte Painter evokes the old gods that they might free us from the inhuman world we have made. She makes sense in modern Western terms of the very difficult subtle ideas of peoples — mystics and dialectic materialists — on the opposite side of the planet. This book contains the valuable knowledge that she has brought back from her explorations." — Maxine Hong Kingston
"Charlotte Painter is that perfect traveler — accepting, observant, and a little mad to go to the places she does. Her Tibet is as varied, funny, and gripping as a novel, as this is called, but her grace and learning make this a wonderfully true book, and great reading." Activists, rock stars, and Hollywood celebrities have raised awareness of the plight of Tibet. In Conjuring Tibet, Charlote Painter creates a compelling frame for the issues — China's desecration of Tibet's religion and culture, its wasting of Tibet's natural resources for industry and nuclear stockpiling. In this novel an American woman travels with a young Tibetan lama to forbidden terrain, a remote monastery. Her notebook records stories of Tibetan persecutions, the agony and humor of her journey, as well as a parallel tale of magical lovers and friends who undertake the liberation of Tibet. Pulsing through this exotic journey is a celebration of the imagination to overcome human limitations and transcend boundaries, even geographic ones. |
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CHARLOTTE PAINTER'S previous books include Gifts of Age, Revelations: Diaries of Women (with Mary Jane Moffat), Confessions from the Malga Madhouse, Who Made the Lamb, and Seeing Things. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award for fiction writing, she was a fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Leland Stanford, Jr. University. She has taught creative writing on the San Francisco State, Stanford, and University of California campuses. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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