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Sky Burial
Xinran
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Description for Sky Burial
Paperback. In March 1958, a Chinese woman learns that her husband, an idealistic army doctor, has died whilst serving in Tibet. Determined to know what has happened to him, she sets off to join his regiment. To her horror, she walks into a bloody conflict, with the Chinese subject to terrifying attacks from Tibetan guerrillas. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; BGA; BTP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461937
SKU
V9780099461937
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Ref
99-7
About Xinran
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives, The Good Women of China. Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian; appeared frequently on radio and TV and has published ... Read more
Reviews for Sky Burial
A romantic epic of loss and redemption, of stoic constancy in the face of the vagaries of fate
Financial Times
Part family story, part mystical adventure in an alien culture, it's like Wild Swans crossed with Seven Years in Tibet
Conde Nast Traveller
This little-known culture has been brought vividly to life ... Read more
Financial Times
Part family story, part mystical adventure in an alien culture, it's like Wild Swans crossed with Seven Years in Tibet
Conde Nast Traveller
This little-known culture has been brought vividly to life ... Read more