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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Xinran, 1958-     Subjects     Shuwen -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.     Women physicians -- China.     Communism and Buddhism -- China) -- Tibet Autonomous Region)     Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region     Spiritual life -- Buddhism.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Xinran, 1958-       by title:      Sky burial : an epic...       by call number:      951.505092 X6s     Search the Web     Xinran, 1958-     Shuwen -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.     Women physicians -- China.     Communism and Buddhism -- China) -- Tibet Autonomous Region)     Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region     Spiritual life -- Buddhism.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel.     Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography.       MARC Display

Sky burial : an epic love story of Tibet / Xinran ; translated from the Chinese by Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley. by Xinran, 1958- Random House Canada, 2004. Call #: 951.505092 X6s Subjects Shuwen -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.   Women physicians -- China.   Communism and Buddhism -- China) -- Tibet Autonomous Region)   Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region   Spiritual life -- Buddhism.   Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel.   Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography. ISBN:  9780679313601 0679313605 9780679313625 (Vintage Canada ed.) 0679313621 (Vintage Canada ed.) Description:  206 p. ; 19 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in Great Britain in 2004 by Chatto & Windus"--T.p. verso. Translated from the Chinese. Summary:  "It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed 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. Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husband’s death. In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wen’s journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is 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."--Inside jacket. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.505092 X6s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.505092 X6s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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