Ebook {Epub PDF} Sky Burial by Xinran

From Xinran, the bestselling author of The Good Women of China, comes Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet a deeply affecting tale about a woman's thirty-year search for her husband in the isolated, hauntingly beautiful land of Tibet. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet is a non-fiction book by British-Chinese author and journalist Xue Xinran (who writes under the name “Xinran”). The book presents itself as the memoir of Shu Wen, told to Xinran during the course of a two-day interview. In Sky 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 www.doorway.ru by: 2.

Xinran was a little girl: the tale frightened and fascinated her. She knew nothing about the Tibetan custom of 'Sky Burial' - indeed few Chinese at the time knew or understood such rituals. But thirty years later, Xinran met a Chinese woman who could tell her the astonishing story that lay behind the legend. Xinran was born in Beijing in In the late s she began working for Chinese radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists. In she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives, The Good Women of www.doorway.ru is the author of three other works and writes a regular column for The Guardian. Xinran. An epic story of Tibet from the author of The Good Women of China.'An epic of love, loss and wisdom - almost unbearably sad but ultimately uplifting' Mail on Sunday 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.

In Sky 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. From Xinran, the bestselling author of The Good Women of China, comes Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet a deeply affecting tale about a woman's thirty-year search for her husband in the isolated, hauntingly beautiful land of Tibet. 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 ritural known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wen, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband Kejun, after he disappeared in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial.