Sky Burial

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'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 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. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast and silent plateaux 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 a grand story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and finally enriching, Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and... Tovább

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'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 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. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast and silent plateaux 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 a grand story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and finally enriching, Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and politics. 4 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. IT'S LIKE WILD SWANS CROSSED WITH SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET9 GILES FODEN 'THIS STORY OF ONE EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN WRITTEN BY ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN WILL STAY WITH YOU LONG AFTER CLOSING THE BOOK' SUNDAY TIMES Vissza