Tibetan Suitcase – Tsering Namgyal Khortsa

Description

We all belong somewhere – a place of our birth, the origin of our being. But there are those who belong to nowhere, an existence without a motherland, or circling in-between, as if in bardo. The Tibetan Suitcase is a story of the peripatetic life of the protagonist, an Indian-born Tibetan. The book is also filled with a cast of memorable characters that are equally longing for their place in the Earth’s geography. Scattered across the world, they manage to get on with their lives – living, loving, laughing, struggling but never giving up – as if in a perpetual long-distance relationship with their homeland, and their loved ones. In a style that is as ambitious as it is simple, the epistolary novel effortlessly unravels Tibetan lives without making in a sermon or a show of grief about the people who are, forever, guests in a foreign land. “TN Khortsa explores and explains the psychology of exile born Tibetans with great empathy, articulates their frustrations, anger and hopes for themselves and for Tibet,” Thubten Samphel, author of Falling Through the Roof “In this exquisitely crafted novel, TN Khortsa offers us a shapeshifting meditation on love, loss, hope and the power of karma, ” Palash Krishna Mehrotra, author of The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey Into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolor Youth “The Tibetan Suitcase is an acute, moving and intensely evocative epistolary novel about the peripatetic Tibetan community in exile, bringing to life its history and philosophical moorings,” Namita Gokhale, author of Things to Leave Behind.