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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- ナレーター: Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
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批評家のレビュー
"Tsering Lama’s wise and devastating debut implores readers to consider what it means to live in exile, what it feels like to never belong. Through the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of one Tibetan family’s struggle to survive and their yearning for liberation, she delivers a stirring love letter to a country and culture. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies captured my heart and mind. A must-read and a marvel." (Jessamine Chan, New York Times best-selling author of The School for Good Mothers)
"A true polished gem of a novel, every sentence is a revelation. Built out of both myth and history, Tsering Lama's first novel marks the debut of a stunning new voice." (Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends)
あらすじ・解説
Bloomsbury presents We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama, read by Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki and Rishma Malik Scott.
For listeners of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile.
In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint—a relic known to vanish and reappear in times of need.
Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo’s daughter, Dolma, in Toronto. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector’s vault, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community, even if it means risking her dreams.
Breathtaking in its scope and powerful in its intimacy, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over 50 years, this novel provides a nuanced, moving portrait of the little-known world of Tibetan exiles.