Christine Toomey es una aclamada periodista cuya extensa cobertura internacional ha dado forma a su distintiva voz literaria. Su obra profundiza en complejos asuntos exteriores, ofreciendo a los lectores una perspectiva matizada perfeccionada por décadas de experiencia sobre el terreno. A través de narrativas convincentes, ilumina las historias humanas detrás de los acontecimientos mundiales, convirtiéndola en una cronista significativa de nuestro tiempo.
In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to trace the routes by which the philosophy has spread from a solitary order in a remote area of India in the 5th century BC, via 1950s San Francisco where Zen was popularised by the Beat generation, to the globally-renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today
A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that devastated the region