Set in Aba\, a town perched at 12\,000 fee t on \;the \;Tibetan plateau in \;the \;far western reache s of China that has been \;the \;engine of Tibetan resistance for decades\, \;Eat \;the \;Buddha \;tells \;the& nbsp\;story of a nation through \;the \;lives of ordinary people l iving in \;the \;throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and \;the \;aggression s of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who h ave long romanticized Tibetans as a deeply spiritual\, peaceful people. Sh e tells a sweeping story that spans decades through \;the \;lives of her subjects\, among them a princess whose family lost everything in&nb sp\;the \;Cultural Revolution\; a young student from a nomadic family who becomes radicalized in \;the \;storied monastery of Kirta\; an upwardly mobile shopkeeper who falls in love with a Chinese woman\; a poe t and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance. \;
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