Eisenvogel is a Swiss book published by the Swiss-Tibetan writer, film director, and actress Yangzom Brauen.

She comes from a cosmopolitan family: Her father, a Bernese ethnologist, also moved to the US, and lives with her mother, the Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen, in New York.

Her grandmother was a Bhikkhunī, a female monk, in eastern Tibet, who emigrated when the 14th Dalai Lama took refuge in Dharamshala in 1959.

Yangzom's mother was aged six when they crossed the Himalayas on foot, but Sonam's father and little sister died.

How the grandmother handled all these strokes of fate, in such foreign places as India, Switzerland, and the US, is the central focus of Eisenvogel.