Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet | 
 enlarge | Author: Xinran Xue
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 248071
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400095646
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781400095643
ASIN: 1400095646
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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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.
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 Wonderful Story of Enduring Love August 28, 2008
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.
An epic story indeed -- love, spirituality, truth June 15, 2008
A 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.
 Outrageous apologia for genocide May 15, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
An 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.
Love Crosses all boundries November 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This 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 believing that he is gone, she signs up with the army and gets shipped off to Tibet in hopes of finding him.
The rest of the book is about her life and journey in Tibet for the next 30 years and the metamorphosis that happens as she slowly looses her identity as a Chinese woman and adopts a Tibetan way of life. It's an amazingly human and touching story.
This book is such a tribute to the strength and courage of women and human beings in general, and it was beautifully written by author Xinran Xue, who brings this true story to life in a vivid, colorful, and real way.
What impressed me the most about this book was that Shu Wen's story reminds us that no matter who is caught up in war and world changing events, we are all human and feel the same things: love, hate, fear, compassion, pain..., and that these emotions cross all cultures, races, and boundaries. This story brings home that we can get past our fears, ideologies, and prejudices and treat each other with love and respect if we are willing to be open.
 Learn about Tibetan life October 17, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My book club selected this book, and I was dreading the "love story" purported in the title. But this is actually a pretty neat story about Tibetan life, and since it's supposedly based on a true story, I'm assuming it's pretty accurate. I knew nothing about nomadic Tibetan culture and their environment (except what I've seen in movies), and I enjoyed being introduced to it in novel form. I also enjoyed reading the Tibetan take on the Dalai Lama conflict between China/Tibet. The book is simply written and plot slow at times, and since it is a translation, I suspect some things might have been lost. I didn't have too much of a problem with the writing, but I didn't care for all the coincidences that occur toward the end. I'm assuming this is where the book is very LOOSELY based on reality. Overall, I do recommend it.
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