Tibetan Sky

Ning Ken was born in Beijing in 1959. His major works include The City of Masks, Tibetan Sky *and Three Trios. For many years, he was the executive deputy editor of the literary magazine *October, and he is now a professional writer at the Lao She Literary Institute. He has been nominated for the Lao She Literary Award, the 2014 Asia Weekly Top Ten Novels and the U.S. Newman Literary Award.

"Experimental, ambitious" - WIRED"Sardonic and erudite, it’s the only major literary treatment of Sino-Tibetan relations to appear in English in decades."\ - Andrew Rule, The Spectator"At its heart …, this is a novel that contrasts alternative ways of being: the rigour of French philosophy duels with ancient Tibetan spirituality" - Rónán Hession, The Irish Times""For all of its philosophical and formal flourishes, Tibetan Sky is carried forward by the intertwining quests of the two main characters, Wang and Ukyi, both of whom are dealing with traumas of histories past and recent."\ ** - Jamyang Phuntsok, MR50**