Sky Burial
, by XINRANNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781400095643 | 1400095646
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 8/8/2006
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author ofThe Good Women of China,received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet. InSky Burial,Xinran has re-created Shu Wen's journey, painting an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love, loss, loyalty, and survival.