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Lachen Im Land Des Donnerdrachen: Mein Leben In Bhutan (2011)

by Linda Leaming(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3485013560 (ISBN13: 9783485013567)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Nymphenburger

review 1: Very nice story about a woman who visits Bhutan and falls in love with it. She goes back and teaches in a school in a mountainous village and marries the art teacher. Eventually they adopt a young girl whose mother cant care for her. Linda Leaking, the author describes her life and struggles in Bhutan and married to a Bhutanese man in a simple direct way. She speaks of what she has gained and what is different in their way of life. At the end of the book she describes the politics of other surrounding countries and what makes Bhutan different from them. Very nicely done.
review 2: My friend Linda Leaming, a freelance writer in Nashville, dropped everything one day and moved to Bhutan, the tiny country tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas. She ... morehad traveled there and fallen in love with the landscape, the people and their way of life. She found a teaching job, and, soon thereafter, found a man, a native Buddhist artist who had never been to the West. They married and, 12 years later, live happily together on a farm outside Thimphu, Bhutan’s capital. Linda’s adventure is the topic of this fascinating, touching and often very funny book. Linda is a gentle spirit with a great sense of humor—qualities she shares with the people of Bhutan. One of the things I like best about her book is the loving way she describes the differences between American and Bhutanese culture. Unlike many expats, she is never disdainful about the land she left behind, and she still embraces her Southern roots. My favorite passages include her description of the fried chicken dinner complete with banana pudding she prepared for 10 Bhutanese friends (they all chowed down) and the trip she took to a remote part of eastern Bhutan, when she grew teary-eyed listening to the bootlegged Ronnie Milsap tape the driver was playing. The Bhutanese people love Ronnie Mislap. Who knew? In the book, Linda shares a great deal about the history, language, religion and mores of Bhutan, whose king declares he is more interested in his people’s GNH—Gross National Happiness—than Gross National Product. But the best parts are her personal insights, her stories of her sometimes rocky adjust- ment to work and marriage in a country that couldn’t be more different from her own. It’s a book about courage. She writes: “I recommend two things to anybody interested in finding out more about who they really are, what they’re made of, what they can endure, and how far humor will take them: running away and hiding out. If you have a chance to do either or both in your life, then by all means take it.” less

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