Title:Sky Burial
ISBN:9780099461937
Author:Xinran
Publisher:Vintage Books
Publish Year:2005
Edition:First Edition
Cover:Paper Back
Subject:Autobiography / Memoirs | Tibet | Culture and Customs
Language:English
Remarks:A Letter to Shu Wen.
Pages:164
Size:128 X 198 MM
Weight(gms):175
Price:USD 8.80
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who had been serving as a doctor in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast and silent plateaus and the magisterial mountain ranges, living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons and struggling to survive. In this haunting book, Xinran recreates Shu Wen's remarkable journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and, ultimately, uplifting Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and politics.
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