Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Xinran
4.09/5 (4890 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed 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.

Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husband's death.

In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wen's journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is 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.

This is based on a true story, but it has been novelized.
Format:
Pages:
210 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0385515480
ISBN13:
9780385515481
kindle Asin:
B0030P1WJK

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Xinran
4.09/5 (4890 ratings)
Read Download
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed 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.

Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husband's death.

In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wen's journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is 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.

This is based on a true story, but it has been novelized.
Format:
Pages:
210 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0385515480
ISBN13:
9780385515481
kindle Asin:
B0030P1WJK

More Books

Cánh Đồng Bất Tận

Nguyễn Ngọc Tư

Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Anne Michaud

Gánh Gánh... Gồng Gồng...

Xuân Phượng

Tìm mình trong thế giới hậu tuổi thơ

Đặng Hoàng Giang

The Borrowed

Chan Ho-Kei

Saga no Gabai Bachan - Nenek Hebat dari Saga

Yoshichi Shimada

Tuổi Thơ Dữ Dội

Phùng Quán

Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Aimee Cabo Nikolov

Ghost Town

Kevin Chen

Dế Mèn Phiêu Lưu Ký (Diary of a Cricket)

Tô Hoài

Bố con cá gai

Cho Chang-In