Child of Tibet

By Soname Yangchen with Vicki Mackenzie
Autobiography

This is a very charming book about Soname’s flight from Chinese occupied Tibet. Soname had a carefree childhood running around on her family’s farm in the Tibetan Himalayas. Her parents then sent her to Lhasa for her safety but cruelly ended up as a child slave. At the age of sixteen, Soname joined a couple of Buddhist Monks for a six week trek across the Himalayas to join the Dalai Lama, at Dharemsala, in North India. Over several years, Soname made her way to England, though not without the pain of losing her child and not knowing where she was.

This is such a courageous and awe inspiring autobiography of one woman’s determined fight to find her daughter, herself and her own place in what can be a very scary and intimidating world. This small book is well worth the read.