In the heart of the Indian Himalayas, in the Spiti Valley — the last untouched fragment of Tibet — ancient traditions, magic, and modernity intertwine.
Lapa, a young novice from a women’s monastery, accidentally summons a snow leopard named Ghost during one of the rituals. From that moment, her life changes forever. The girl, gifted with a rare ability, becomes the first female buchen — a mage-performer of an ancient Tibetan tradition. Together with her teacher Amid and the enormous snow leopard, she performs miracles: saving lives, crossing closed mountain passes, facing danger, and uncovering the secrets of the mountains.
The first novel in The Nun and the Snow Leopard series is a patchwork quilt of stories. Some of them actually happened, some could have happened, and some are still waiting for their time. Here live monks and buchens, snow leopards and Tibetan mastiffs, lost monasteries and people in whom an ancient power awakens in the most unexpected of places.
The Nun and the Snow Leopard is Himalayan magical realism — a story about the friendship between a human and a wild animal, about choosing one’s path, and about how ancient magic still works in the modern world.
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