Sís, Peter

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In a red box, Peter Sis finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950's. Bit by bit he unravels the story of his father's journey.

For most of his childhood, the red lacquered box had been beyond his reach in his father's sutdy. Now he was being summoned hom to discover its carefully guarded secrets. Opening the box, the author finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid-1950's. As …

By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys...A father's diary, an artist's memoir... While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy d…

The author recreates his father's visit to Tibet and the wondrous things that he found there. A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box.…

I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, s…

I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, s…

[In this book, the author] shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in…