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This book provides a fascinating glimpse of modern Tibetan literary art. These four stories focus on women's lives in contemporary Tibet. The translation of Dondrub Gyel's A Blighted Flower forms the main work in this collection. It is a novella of seven chapters and is considered to be one of the pioneering works in modern Tibetan : Paperback.

A Blighted Flower and Other stories provide a fascinating glimpse of modern Tibetan literary art. These four stories focus on women's lives in contemporary translation of Dondrub Gyel's A Blighted Flower forms the main work in this collection/5(5).

Flowering and Other Stories has a certain unfamiliar quality, things are a little bit off, quirky. But then as one reads on the situation becomes entirely familiar until that very comfortable moment when suddenly that unfamiliarity returns, sometimes ferociously.

Expect the unexpected in this collection of off-kilter stories/5(16). A blighted flower and other stories: portraits of women in modern Tibetan literature (Book, ) [] Your list has reached the maximum number of items.

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First, let me say that I won a copy of "Flowering and Other Stories" through Goodreads First Reads which i am very thankful for.

this is a bit overdue but anyways. i really was not disappointed with this book, it was very well written and complex though each story had my adoration. i loved the characters and Tom Bentley, may i just say, your awesome/5.

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My library.The wind is hissing like a robber summoning other robbers, and filling the night with disquieting phantoms. It seems as if the sea were full of sinking vessels, of people who are drowning and desperately struggling with death.

Voices are heard. Somewhere near by people are shouting, scolding each other, laughing and singing, like madmen, or talking.