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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
2023 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner
2023 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist
2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Shortlist
2023 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes Shortlist
2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist
2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Longlist
2022 Toronto Book Awards Longlist
For listeners of Homegoing and The Boat People, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile.
In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, the village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint, a relic long rumored to vanish and reappear in times of need.
Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo’s daughter, Dolma, in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector’s vault, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community, even if it means risking her dreams.
Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we'll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles.
What the critics say
A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month
One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts
One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch
A Most Anticipated Book - The Millions * Ms. Magazine * Bustle
"Through a stirring intergenerational saga that spans decades and continents, Tsering Yangzom Lama deftly unearths how exiles create home when their homeland has been stolen. With tender authenticity, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies delicately and vigorously illustrates the ongoing human cost of Tibetan displacement, and the resolve of refugees to uphold a strong diaspora despite the violence of colonialism. The Tibetan women at the centre of Lama’s story are bound by an unflinching love for each other, their people, and the country to which they can no longer return. Vast in time, space, and feeling, this determined novel builds a vibrant world that’s both expansive and exact. Each line carefully bears the weight of longing for what once was, and the hope to sustain an uprooted culture still coming to be. Regenerative in spirit, the pages of this story are both an homage to survival and a home for the exiled." —Jury citation, Scotiabank Giller Prize
“We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies showcases a writer of rare talent and uncompromising vision. In these pages that speak of exile and loss, of longing and sorrow, Tsering Lama also manages to remind us–with startling beauty and compassion – how much can still survive. This novel is a testament to a people’s resolve to love, no matter what. A triumph.” —Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
“[A] heartfelt and magical saga of a Tibetan family's love, sacrifice, and heritage … Lama imbues this mesmerizing tale—informed by her own family fleeing Tibet for Nepal in the 1960s—with a rich sense of history, mysticism, and ritual." —Publishers Weekly
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- Tahereh Haji
- 2022-11-12
great book, medium audiobook
Not sure it was “more realistic” to have fake Indian-ish accents for some of the characters? The book itself was very beautiful and worth reading
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- Kindle Customer
- 2022-07-26
Life stories from Tibet by Tsering Yangsom Lama
Lyrical reads like poetry. Writing at its finest. One more addition to my must read shelf.
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- Michelle N.
- 2023-04-20
Great book
I enjoyed reading this book. It shows sorrows of a nation after being forced to leave their land.
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- rita
- 2022-07-03
Outstanding
Beautifully narrated and written about a profound topic that Is not written about nearly enough.
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