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Item Information       More Content     More by this author     Alai, 1959-     Subjects     Gesar (Legendary character) -- Fiction.     Shepherds -- Fiction.     Gods, Chinese -- Fiction.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Alai, 1959-       by title:      The song of King Ges...       by call number:      FICTION ALA     Search the Web     Alai, 1959-     Gesar (Legendary character) -- Fiction.     Shepherds -- Fiction.     Gods, Chinese -- Fiction.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The song of King Gesar / Alai ; translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin. by Alai, 1959- Canongate, 2013. Call #: FICTION ALA Subjects Gesar (Legendary character) -- Fiction.   Shepherds -- Fiction.   Gods, Chinese -- Fiction.   Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction. Series Myths ; 15. ISBN:  9781847672353 (trade pbk.) Description:  392 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Translated from the Chinese. Summary:  Set partly in ancient Tibetan society, where evil spirits mingle with the lives of humans, and partly in modern-day Tibet, 'The Song of King Gesar' tells of two lives inextricably entwined. Gesar, the youngest and bravest of the gods, has been sent down to the human world to defeat the demons that plague the lives of ordinary people and threaten to enslave them. Jigmed is a young shepherd, who is visited by dreams of Gesar, of gods and of ancient battles while he sleeps. Genre:  Epic literature, Tibetan -- Translations into English. Chinese fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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