New book Eat The Buddha by Barbara Demick tells the tragic story of the people of Tibet
POLITICS EAT THE BUDDHA by Barbara Demick (Granta, £18.99, 272pp) The very word ‘Tibet’ has romantic, resonance. The ‘Roof of the World’ conjures the vast snowy wastes of the High Himalayan plateau, populated by yaks, nomadic herders, yetis and Buddhist lamas in russet robes, capable of levitation and clairvoyance. Alas, there is a very different … Read more