Conjuring Tibet
By: Charlotte Painter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Americans -- China -- Fiction.; Women -- Religious life -- Fiction.; Tibet (China) -- Fiction.
Description: Activists, rock stars, and Hollywood celebrities have raised awareness of the plight of Tibet. In Conjuring Tibet, Charlotte 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.