Sky Burial by Xinran
Title: Sky Burial
Genre: Travel / Memoir
Author: Xinran
In the early 1960′s a rumour circulated through China that one of its soldiers in Tibet had been brutally fed to the vultures, Xinran was a little girl, the tale frightened and fascinated her. She knew nothing about the Tibetan custom “Sky Burial” – but thirty years later Xinran met a Chinese woman who could tell her the astonishing story behind the legend. Hardcover, Published by Random House 2004. Very Good condition.
In 1958, Shu Wen was twenty-six. She and her husband Kejun whre young medical students, fired with the hope and enthusiasm of the early Communist years. It was this idealism that led Kejun to join the army as a Doctor. But, only a few months after her marriage, Wen heard that her husband had been killed in action in Tibet. Refusing to believe the news, she too joined up as a doctor and set out for Tibet in search of him. In this haunting book, Xinran recreates Shu Wen's extraordinary journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival.
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