The Dalai Lama's Smile - Closson Buck, Paula
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"A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son he's never understood and finds himself delving into the mystery of the young man's life. A Turkish-Cypriot teacher is tasked with making an inventory of household goods in an occupied tourist resort the inhabitants have fled. A Greek sculptor whose marriage is failing covers for a student from the US who, instead of learning the art, engages in an affair. A Buddhist nun enlists the help of a Peace Corps worker to kill a suffering dog. A wannabe eco-activist in Kentucky writes confessional letters to Boyan Slat,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son he's never understood and finds himself delving into the mystery of the young man's life. A Turkish-Cypriot teacher is tasked with making an inventory of household goods in an occupied tourist resort the inhabitants have fled. A Greek sculptor whose marriage is failing covers for a student from the US who, instead of learning the art, engages in an affair. A Buddhist nun enlists the help of a Peace Corps worker to kill a suffering dog. A wannabe eco-activist in Kentucky writes confessional letters to Boyan Slat, the young CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. A woman in a Rajasthan tourist caravan bears helpless witness to a dire culture clash"--
Autorenporträt
Paula Closson Buck is the author of a novel, Summer on the Cold War Planet , as well as three books of poems, most recently You Cannot Shoot a Poem. Her short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Nimrod International, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, and Southern Review, and her fiction has been recognized with a prize from Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter Competition and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She also spent six months as a Fulbright Scholar in Nicosia, Cyprus, and has been involved in NGO work in India. She now divides her time between Pennsylvania and the Pelion region of Greece.