by Peter Sís
Tried reading this with my daughter (9) who couldn't get into it. Finished it on my own; a better target may be young teens. In the book, the author tells a story of his father's diary, recorded while lost in Tibet. These events are connected to stories told to the author while sick in bed, and both...
Narrator retells his Czech father's stories of visiting Tibet via China. There may be some magical exoticization of Tibet going on, but everything has the magical gloss of childhood stories on it, places you can't get back to, and there are some interesting and understated parallels between Tibet a...
An otherworldly tale of Sis' father's experiences in Tibet and a parallel tale of Sis' experiences with his dad's absence from his childhood and a parallel tale of the later remembering of the stories his dad told. All this and intricate, fascinating drawings as well. It looks like a children's book...
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