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Bloomsbury Publishing
October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
Featuring: Lhamo; Dolma
368 pages
ISBN: 1639731849
EAN: 9781639731848
Kindle: B09LMKCS3R
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Fiction Family Life
For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers,
a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan
family's journey through exile.
International
Bestseller
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First
Novel Prize
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller
Prize
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 fifty
years, this novel provides a nuanced, moving portrait of the
little-known world of Tibetan exiles.
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