Publisher: William Morrow
March 11, 2025)
Hardcover: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0063391390
“Voice for the Voiceless,” the Dalai Lama’s new book, presents an inside look at Tibetans' efforts to pursue the Middle Way Approach, which calls for a negotiated solution to China’s occupation of their historically independent country. His Holiness the Dalai Lama recounts the entire tale of his nearly 75-year battle with China to save Tibet and its people in this one-of-a-kind book that offers historical, spiritual, and personal comments that some have never before shared.
The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People’s Republic of China for about his entire life. He was sixteen years old when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and twenty-five when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. In the decades since, he has faced Communist China’s leaders—Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping—in his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, with their distinct language, culture, religion, history, and environment, in the face of the greatest possible obstacles. Even as he describes one bad setback after another, he gives witness to a tradition of almost unearthly sweetness and magnanimity.
Now, almost seventy-five years after China’s initial invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet’s unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their own homeland. It also lays out how important international support has been for champions of the Tibetan cause. It shows how the United States Congress has played a pivotal role in pushing China to resume dialogue.
He offers his thoughts on the geopolitics of the region and shares how he personally was able to preserve his own humanity through the profound losses and challenges that threaten the very survival of the Tibetan people. This book captures the Dalai Lama’s extraordinary life journey—discovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and to build a life in exile; dealing with the existential crisis of a nation, its people, and its culture and religion; and envisioning the path forward.
Voice for the Voiceless is a powerful testimony from a global icon who shares both his pain and his enduring hope in his people’s ongoing quest to restore dignity and freedom.
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según la publicación digital Cubanet, es una de las escritoras exiliadas que más se lee fuera de la isla. En su lista de autores cubanos exitosos, es la única que aparece con dos títulos: La casa del placer (2019) y Pájaro lindo de la madrugá (2020). A sus bestsellers La nada cotidiana, Café nostalgia, entre muchos otros, en 2023 se añadieron El amante griego, La Intensa Vida y En la Habana nunca hace frio.