© Columbia University Press
Lhasa: Streets with Memories
March, 2006
Cloth, 244 pages, 20 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13680-8
$26.50
/ £15.50
"Barnett's book is a wonderful read... This is a book that will transfix readers." — Booklist
"[A] Brilliant rumination on Tibet's capital." — Tricycle
"Most readers of this fascinating book will finish reading it feeling that they truly know the Tibetan City." — Lucian Pye, Foreign Affairs
"[Barnett] emerges in these pages as a perceptive and sympathetic observer of a city that has often been described, but rarely understood." — Isabel Hilton, London Review of Books
"An imaginative and atmospheric book... which will appeal to all those interested in Tibet." — Wendy Palace, Asian Affairs
"An eloquent account of the changes in the city’s geography" — Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books
"[This] rumination on the capital of Tibet is the rare book that can draw tears just with
its assemblage of neutral, entirely unpolemical facts." — Pico Iyer, TIME Asia
"“Barnett’s ruminations on Lhasa in this slim text are eloquently written, captivating reading, and highly recommended. " — Tom Grunfeld, China Review International
"[A] remarkable book." — Elidor Mehilli, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
"A fascinating account of Lhasa." — Ben Hillman, The China Journal
"Robert Barnett offers a needed cautionary note regarding understanding Tibet, and does so in an elegant and poetic fashion." — Melvyn Goldstein, Case Western University, author of A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951: The Demise of a Lamist State
"Robert Barnett has written a book which manages to describe Tibet, a country too often mythologized by outsiders, in a manner which is both accessible and erudite, and at the same time startlingly humble." — Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History
"Robert Barnett has written a strikingly original book. With a rigorous eye turned on Lhasa, one of the world's most compelling cities, he offers a rich archaeology of Tibetan history in context, in prose never less than elegant, often deeply memorable. Barnett holds this jewel of a city up to the light, turns it in every direction; the result is a gemlike book, one that will stay in the reader's mind, illuminating a vast continent of thought and feeling." — Jay Parini, author of One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner