Ritorno al Tibet

Year: 1999 Pages: 172 In 1982, thirty years after his escape from Tibet invaded by the Chinese, Heinrich Harrer finally manages to return to what he now feels is his adopted homeland. Everything seems to have changed: the temples razed to the ground, the landscape disfigured, the city transformed into a sad spectacle force the author to make continuous comparisons with the happy past of independent Tibet, which saw him as the protagonist of Seven Years in Tibet. But Harrer is quick to understand that, despite the many years of occupation and repression, the attempt to "Chineseise the country has failed. The looting and destruction of unique treasures and thousands of ancient monasteries have actually strengthened the courageous resistance of a a people increasingly anchored to their religion, a powerful bond of cultural and social union. Harrer thus accompanies us on an intense and moving itinerary, in which love for the Tibetan people is intertwined with the defense of its mysterious and wise civilization.