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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.1352
EAN: 9780385515481
ISBN: 0385515480
Label: Nan A. Talese
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 19, 2005
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Studio: Nan A. Talese
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poor Excuse for a Love Story
I'm sorry, to call this an Epic Love Story is ridiculous. Yes Shu Wen loved her husband enough to make an attempt to go find him after she received a questionable letter than he had died, but that is as far as the 'love story" in this tale goes. I found it really hard to like this book and was so bored with it about three quarters of the way through I tossed it and didnt find myself interested enough to finish it. It's not written that well in the sense that I found her story intriquing or her character ... Read More
Rating:  - Epic in many ways
Sky Burial is Xinran's telling of Shu Wen's story of the thirty year search for her husband in Tibet. Shu Wen was only married to her husband for 3 weeks when he was called up to serve as a doctor in the People's Liberation Army. After only 100 days of marriage, Shu Wen received notice that her husband had died in Tibet. She was given no details and what she had been told led her to doubt that he was really dead. Shu Wen was herself a doctor and so she joined the army in order to get into Tibet with the ... Read More
Rating:  - A Love Story for the Reader, As Well
Sky Burial is based on a true story as it was told to the author, Xinran, by the principal character, Shu Wen. Wen's young idealist husband is an Army doctor in 1950's China, sent to Tibet during the time of China's "liberation" of Tibet. They had only been married three weeks when he left, and around 100 days after his departure she received a letter stating he was dead. The lack of explanation of death gave her a hope that perhaps he really wasn't dead, just lost, and she joined the Army as well, in her ... Read More
Rating: - Sky Burial
Amazing story - I didn't want it to end as you can't beleive the committment shown.
Rating: - I was skeptical
A friend of mine whom I lovingly refer to as the Uberlibrarian once recommended a book to me that I thought was a total stinker. So when she began to rave about Sky Burial, I was skeptical. After all, the last book she was very enthusiastic about was The Smoke Jumper--which was the aforementioned stinker. Could she be trusted again?
Oh, yes. This is a very slender volume of a woman's search for her husband who was reported dead by the Chinese government shortly after their marriage. As ... Read More
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