Dondrup The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54878-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Tsering Döndrup 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 Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.

With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Döndrup 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 Döndrup’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 Döndrup 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 Döndrup’s tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dondrup, Tsering

Weitere Mitwirkende

Peacock, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Disturbance in D— Camp
2. Piss and Pride
3. Ralo
4. A Show to Delight the Masses
5. One Mani
6. Mahjong
7. The Story of the Moon
8. A Formula
9. The Handsome Monk
10. Revenge
11. Nose Rings
12. Brothers
13. The Last Man to Care for His Parents
14. Black Fox Valley
15. Notes of a Volunteer AIDS Worker

Über Autor(innen)

Dondrup Tsering :

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).Peacock Christopher :

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.

Christopher Peacock is a PhD candidate at Columbia University.