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It is an extraordinary story of determination, love and endurance. In Across Many Mountains Sonam's daughter, Yangzom, born in safety in Switzerland, has written the story of her inspirational mother and grandmother's fight for survival, and their lives in exile. The book has sold over 100,000 copies in Germany and Switzerland, and was on Europe’s Spiegel Bestseller list for over 40 weeks as well as The Focus Bestseller list. Kusang's husband and her younger child died, but somehow Kusang and her daughter Sonam survived. ‘Across Many Mountains’ is a memoir about three generations of Tibetan women: Yangzom’s grandmother, her mother and her own story. It took a month to reach India, where they were then passed from one refugee camp to another, all the while fighting hunger and disease. The family were forced to flee across the Himalayas in the depths of winter, battling cold, fear, starvation and exhaustion.

Thousands were tortured, prison camps were set up and Kusang's monastery was destroyed. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives were destroyed forever. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. It took a month to reach India, where they were then passed from one refugee camp to another. Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Maos Red.