The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities, brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese.

Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful.

For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.
Old Demons, New Deities: Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet, Tenzin Dickie (editor), OR Books, Paperback, 304 pages, $16.95

For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.

Introduction	1
Wink - Pema Bhum	9
The Silence - Jamyang Norbu	31
Ralo - Tsering Dondrup	41
Under the Shadow - Bhuchung D. Sonam	61
The Agate and the Singer - Kyabchen Dedrol	73
The New Road Controversy - Takbum Gyal	79
Nyima Tsering's Tears - Woeser	87
Hunter's Moon - Jamyang Norbu	97
The Flight of the Wind Horse - Pema Tsewang Shastri	103
Letter for Love - Tsering Wangmo Dhompa	109
The Connection - Bhuchung D. Sonam	135
Light - Tsering Lama	147
The Season of Retreats - Tsering Namgyal Khortsa	161
The Dream of a Wandering Minstrel - - Pema Tseden	171
The Fifth Man - Tenzin Dorjee	187
Winter in Patlikuhl - Tenzin Dickie	195
Snow Pilgrimage - Kyabchen Dedrol	209
Zumki's Snow Lion - Tenzin Tsundue	221
Dolma - Dhondup Tashi Rekjong	227
Tips - Pema Bhum	243
The Valley of the Black Foxes - Tsering Dondrup	251
Contributor Biographies	281
Acknowledgments	289