Tibetan Sky

Wang Mojie’s dreams wilted in the Beijing heat.

Leaving behind its constricting avenues at the end of the millennium,¹ the disillusioned academic seeks meaning in Lhasa. Instead, he finds Ukyi Lhamo.

The soul of every party, her studied Parisian charms hide an inner rootlessness. Raised by a mother who stifled her beliefs to protect all she held dear, she searches for her grandmother,² the key to her lost heritage.

Crossing paths among a gathering of self-exiled intellectuals living among the cool mountains, the two bond on the sidelines of a fierce philosophical debate. However, as Wang Mojie’s masochistic fantasies resurface, can they cling to what they mutually lack? Or was it never possible to make peace with zero?

¹ After a divorce sparked by his unusual perversions

² A Tibetan Buddhist nun with a severed aristocratic lineage