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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 o{
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.
ln 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.
.A ROMANTIC EPIC OF LOSS AND REDEMPTION, OF STOIC CONSTANCY IN THE FACE OF THE VAGARIES OF FATE, FINANCAL TIMES
'PART FAMILY STORY, PART MYSICAL ADVENTURE..IT’S LIKE WILDD SWANs CROSSED WITH SEYEN YEARS IN TIBET GILES FODEN
