Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

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.

Author: Xinran
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 08/08/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781400095643

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/03/2006 pg. 20
Kliatt 03/01/2007 pg. 24

About the Author
Xinran is the author of The Good Women of China, a seminal work about the lives of Chinese women. She was born in Beijing in 1958, and by the late 1980s had become a successful Chinese journalist. In 1997 she moved to London, where she currently writes a regular column in The Guardian.