num_pages: 224
description: It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a 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. 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.
language: English
title: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
titlecomplete: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
characters: Shu Wen
genres: China, Historical, History, Travel, Asia, Biography Memoir, Biography, Romance, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6674
places: China, Tibet
publisher: Anchor