and Francis Ng
“Tears? What are they?” asked Pelma, a little nun who lived on an island at the heart of a salt lake. Everybody laughed at this naïve girl who had carelessly damaged the convent’s precious thangka painting.
Pelma was sent to shore to find a high lama to repair the thangka. New friends and mischievous spirits joined the young girl on her journey. She learned about deception, greed and cruelty, as well as human warmth and kindness. She came to taste all kinds of tears.
But nothing could prepare Pelma for the hardest decision of all: destroying the thangka that she had taken such trouble to repair…
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