Sky Burial

Xinran

ISBN 10: 0679313605 / ISBN 13: 9780679313601

Published by Random House, Toronto, 2004

About this Item

A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; First impression of Canadian edition. Flat-signed by author on title page.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sky Burial
• Publisher: Random House, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679313605
• ISBN 13: 9780679313601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Canadian Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In 2002 Xinran’s Good Women of China became an international bestseller, revealing startling new truths about Chinese life to the West. Now she returns with an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

Based on a true story, Xinran’s extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world’s most mysterious and inaccessible countries. In March 1958, Shu Wen learns that her husband, an idealistic army doctor, has died while serving in Tibet. Determined to find out what happened to him, she courageously sets off to join his regiment. But to her horror, instead of finding a Tibetan people happily welcoming their Chinese “liberators” as she expected, she walks into a bloody conflict, with the Chinese subject to terrifying attacks from Tibetan guerrillas. It seems that her husband may have died as a result of this clash of cultures, this disastrous misunderstanding. But before she can know his fate, she is taken hostage and embarks on a life-changing journey through the Tibetan countryside — a journey that will last twenty years and lead her to a deep appreciation of Tibet in all its beauty and brutality. Sadly, when she finally discovers the truth about her husband, she must carry her knowledge back to a China that, in her absence, has experienced the Cultural Revolution and changed beyond recognition. . .

About the Author

Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958. In the late 1980s she began working for Chinese radio and went on to become one of China’s most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women’s lives, The Good Women of China.