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 bltadwin.ru by: 2. · 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 bltadwin.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet is a non-fiction book by British-Chinese author and journalist Xue Xinran (who writes under the name “Xinran”). The book presents itself as the memoir of Shu Wen, told to Xinran during the course of a two-day interview. When Shu Wen’s husband is killed fighting for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Tibet, she follows him to discover his fate.
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet is a story of heroism that transcends the centuries, a tale to be passed along from one generation to another of one woman's devotion to her husband. A young Chinese wife, Shu Wen, a physician, joins the army in search of her husband, Kejun, is reportedly killed in Tibet. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wen, a Chinese woman in Suzhou who had spent years searching for her missing husband Kejun, after he disappeared in Tibet. Their story would help unravel the legend of the Sky Burial. Xinran met Shu Wen in "An old woman dressed in Tibetan clothing, smelling strongly of old leather, rancid milk and. Comments on Review: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xue # Brie wrote on Octo at pm: This sounds really moving. I usually steer away from books with tragic love stories, I just don't have the heart for them, but I might give this one a go.
From Xinran, the bestselling author of The Good Women of China, comes Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet a deeply affecting tale about a woman's thirty-year search for her husband in the isolated, hauntingly beautiful land of Tibet. Sky Burial is an extraordinary story about a Chinese woman, Shu Wen, who travels to Tibet to find her husband. Her story begins in , just after she and her husband are married. He gets sent into Tibet with the People's Liberation Army. Shortly after, she receives news of his death. Unwilling to believe the news, she travels to Tibet to find him. Set in , it is the true passionate story of Shu Wen who travels to Tibet in search of her husband Kejun, a doctor who is sent to Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army. She receives a letter from the Army informing of her husband’s demise, but Wen refuses to accept his death and consequently travels to Tibet hoping to find him.
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