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Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia Paperback – May 1, 2023

by Om Dhungel (Author), James Button (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.

Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry. Forced to flee Bhutan, Om Dhungel spent six years as a refugee in Nepal before he arrived in Australia. Today Om is a respected community leader in western Sydney, consulted frequently by government and settlement organizations on refugee policy. Written with Walkley Award–winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown tells of Om Dhungel’s remarkable journey from a village on the Himalayan ridges and life as a refugee in Kathmandu, to, eventually, Blacktown, Australia. It is a story of grit and determination, humour and irrepressible optimism.
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    May 1, 2023
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    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1742237894
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    978-1742237893
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Om Dhungel arrived in Australia as a student in 1998 before being granted a refugee visa in light of the Bhutanese Government’s persecution of the ethnic Nepalese of southern Bhutan. As inaugural president of the Association of Bhutanese in Australia, Om played a critical role in the settlement of 5000 Bhutanese refugees in Australia. Before coming to Australia he was a senior civil servant in Bhutan’s Department of Telecommunications, then, while a refugee in Nepal, general secretary of the Human Rights Organisation of Bhutan and co-editor of The Bhutan Review. James Button is a former journalist and Europe correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of Speechless: A year in My Father’s Business and Comeback: The Fall and Rise of Geelong, and has won three Walkley awards and a Melbourne Press Club Quill for feature writing. He is a freelance writer and editor.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NewSouth (May 1, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1742237894
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1742237893
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.25 inches
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Julia Freeman-Woolpert
5.0 out of 5 stars Great insight into Bhutan history and culture
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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This is one of the first memoirs to come out of the Bhutanese diaspora. Much needed to contradict the narrative of Shangri-la. Congratulations for taking lemons and making lemonade!
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Yesha Subba
5.0 out of 5 stars So many trials, tribulations and then jubilations!
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2024
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This is a true copy of (uncle) Om’s journey ! If, after reading this book, you conclude he is active, hyper-optimistic, over enthusiastic, filled with hope, always ready to say “hi” to a stranger with an endless supply of providing support then that is exactly who he in real life. Having known him most of my life , there was so much about his childhood I did not know until I picked up this book. There is 50% of the book I was a witness to but so many details that our elders never discussed with us as we tried to process what was happening to us. This book helped me relive many memories such as the publication of the Bhutan Review on Pg 118 from the room that used to be my sister’s & my bedroom when we came back to Nepal from school. So proud of the life Om uncle has created for his family and so many others in Australia and continues to do so everyday —- after so much uncertainty, trials and tribulations. Uncle Om could write another and many more books on sooo many topics ! I never get tired of him telling me about his serendipitous job search journey how one lead to another — and it was so exciting to read it again in this book (although I have heard the extended version :)
I would encourage everyone to give this book a read so that every time we tell people we are from Bhutan we don’t have feel the painful sting of “wow ! Isn’t Bhutan the happiest place on earth??? How blessed to be from there”… and our entire past comes flashing back and the background story is too complicated. This book illustrates the unfairness, families divided, fear and how one day can change the rest of your life’s direction and start from scratch.
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Yesha Subba
5.0 out of 5 stars So many trials, tribulations and then jubilations!
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2024
This is a true copy of (uncle) Om’s journey ! If, after reading this book, you conclude he is active, hyper-optimistic, over enthusiastic, filled with hope, always ready to say “hi” to a stranger with an endless supply of providing support then that is exactly who he in real life. Having known him most of my life , there was so much about his childhood I did not know until I picked up this book. There is 50% of the book I was a witness to but so many details that our elders never discussed with us as we tried to process what was happening to us. This book helped me relive many memories such as the publication of the Bhutan Review on Pg 118 from the room that used to be my sister’s & my bedroom when we came back to Nepal from school. So proud of the life Om uncle has created for his family and so many others in Australia and continues to do so everyday —- after so much uncertainty, trials and tribulations. Uncle Om could write another and many more books on sooo many topics ! I never get tired of him telling me about his serendipitous job search journey how one lead to another — and it was so exciting to read it again in this book (although I have heard the extended version :)
I would encourage everyone to give this book a read so that every time we tell people we are from Bhutan we don’t have feel the painful sting of “wow ! Isn’t Bhutan the happiest place on earth??? How blessed to be from there”… and our entire past comes flashing back and the background story is too complicated. This book illustrates the unfairness, families divided, fear and how one day can change the rest of your life’s direction and start from scratch.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in Australia on June 8, 2023
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A well written and informative story .An outing of a relatively closed country ,warts and all , the good ,the bad and the ugly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Positivity
Reviewed in Australia on May 31, 2023
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An amazing story of one of the most positive characters to emerge out of Bhutan and into the Australian setting. A joy to read. How lucky is Australia!
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