Fire Under The Snow
Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice.
In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860465093 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860465099 |
| Author: | Palden Gyatso |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Panther S. |
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Critics Review
In writing this enduring memoir of extraordinary suffering, resistance and endurance, he has testified not only to the pain of countless individuals but to the devastation of a nation
“In writing this enduring memoir of extraordinary suffering, resistance and endurance, he has testified not only to the pain of countless individuals but to the devastation of a nation” – Judith Shapiro New York Times “Every household in Britain should have a copy of Fire Under the Snow” – Patrick French Sunday Times “This is a book with glory and filth, innocence and murder, wisdom and madness, and at this moment the filth, murder and madness are taking over” – Bernard Levin The Times
Palden Gyatso
Palden Gyatso was born in 1933 and raised in a small Tibetan village. At the age of eighteen, he became an ordained Buddhist Monk at one of Tibet’s most famous monasteries, Drepung Monastery.
Palden was arrested in 1959 after taking part in a non-violent demonstration for Tibetan independence. After a failed escape bid, he was starved and tortured. Following his release in 1992, after 33 years of captivity, he fled to India and began to reveal the true extent of the Chinese oppression in Tibet.
The Venerable Palden Gyatso now lives in Dharamsala, India. Since his escape from Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1992, he has travelled widely in Europe and the USA with Amnesty and other support organizations. In 1995, he testified at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
Palden’s autobiography, Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk, was published in 1997.
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