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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781400095643 ISBN: 1400095646 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 08, 2006 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: August 08, 2006 Studio: Anchor Editorial Review: Product 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - book club selectionWe chose this book as a book club selection. Although simply written, the story ignited conversations on cultural differences and how the knowledge of one's own freedom affects the decisions made in a lifetime. Some of our group members loved the story, others were confused by the seeming helplessness and futility of a life. Definately a story to spark an interest in Tibet. Rating:  - Wonderful Story of Enduring Love This is the 3rd book by Xinran that I have read (on recommendation from one of my friends). She is a wonderful write and recounts the interviews of lives of Chinese women. This particular story is about enduring love of a Chinese woman who goes to Tibet to find her husband. Xinran tells the stories of the women with such empathy and with lovely detail of the area in which the story takes place. Rating: - An epic story indeed -- love, spirituality, truthA deeply moving story of love and spirituality. Beautiful, intense, heart wrenching -- and made all the more so as it is true. It brought me to tears. Not a story to be missed. Rating:  - Outrageous apologia for genocideAn apologia for 50 years of genocide in Tibet by the Chinese, disguised as an "epic love story". Insulting to anyone who has been involved in trying to stop the genocide of the Tibetan people and culture. Rating: - Love Crosses all boundriesThis book is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's the story of Shu Wen a Chinese Dr. who goes on the most incredible journey trying to find her husband in Tibet who has been declared dead. What a love story! But not in the traditional sense. Shu Wen is separated from her Dr. husband of a short time when he is shipped off to Tibet while serving in the Chinese army during the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the late 50's. Shortly after, she gets word of his death and not ... Read More |
