Bhutan To Blacktown. Losing Everything And Finding Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: NewSouth
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 276 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry. Forced to flee Bhutan, Om Dhungel spent six years as a refugee in Nepal before he arrived in Australia. Today Om is a respected community leader in western Sydney, consulted frequently by government and settlement organisations on refugee policyWritten with Walkley Award- winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown tells of Om Dhungel s remarkable journey from a village on the Himalayan ridges and life as a refugee in Kathmandu, to, eventually, Blacktown, Australia. It is a story of grit and determination, humour and irrepressible optimism.

ISBN: 9781742237893