Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents by Amy Yee (author), His Holiness the Dalai Lama (foreword)

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Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents
Authors:	Amy Yee (author), His Holiness the Dalai Lama (foreword)
ISBN:	9789395474320
Binding:	Hardcover
Year:	2025
Pages:	282
Size:	16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:	578 grams
Price:	INR~~2195~~1976.00

About the Book

In 2008, the Chinese government cracked down on protests throughout Tibet, and journalist Amy Yee found herself covering a press conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his exile home in India. She never imagined a personal encounter with the spiritual leader would spark a global, fourteen-year journey to spotlight the stories of Tibetans in exile. As she documents how Tibetans live between worlds, Yee comes to know ordinary but extraordinary people like Topden, a monk and unlikely veterinary assistant; Norbu, a chef and political refugee; and Deckyi and Dhondup, a couple forced to leave their middle-class lives in Lhasa. Yee follows them to other parts of India and across oceans and four continents where they forge new lives while sustaining Tibetan identity and culture.

Weaving a sweeping travel narrative with intimate on-the-ground reportage, Far from the Rooftop of the World tells these stories and others against the backdrop of milestones and events in Tibet’s recent history – many memorable, too many tragic. The resulting portrait illuminates the humanity, strength, and perseverance of a people whose homeland is in crisis.

About the Authors

Amy Yee

Amy Yee is an award-winning writer and journalist, currently with Chicago Sun-Times and previously Bloomberg/CityLab and Financial Times in New York and India where she lived for seven years. She has written for the New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, NPR and more than 30 US and UK media outlets.

She is a winner in Foreword’s Book of the Year Awards and a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year Awards. Amy has had four Notable Essays in the Best American Essays anthology. She is a MacDowell and Logan Nonfiction Fellow.

Amy has won three awards from the United Nations Correspondents Association; four from the South Asian Journalists Association; the Asian American Journalists Association; Chicago Journalists Association; and first place from the Association of Healthcare Journalists for analysis about reducing deaths of children in India and Bangladesh.

She is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Journalism School, Hunter College’s MFA program and Wellesley College.

Amy has reported from more than 20 countries, including ten in Africa.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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