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Xinran Sky Burial
London Chatto and Windus 2004 0701176229 / 9780701176228 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In the early 1960's a rumour circulated through China that one of its soldiers in Tibet had been brutally fed to the vultures, Xinran was a little girl and the tale frightened and fascinated her. She knew nothing of the Tibetan custom of 'Sky Burial', but 30 years later she met a Chinese woman who could tell her the astonishing story that lay behind the legend. He name was Shu Wen and she had spent most of her life on the Tibetan plateau. In 1958, Wen was 26, and she and her husband Kejun were young medical students, fired with the hope and enthusiasm of Communism, and it was this ideal that led Kejun to join the army as a doctor, but only a few months later Wen heard that Kejun had been killed. Refusing to believe the news she too joined the up as a doctor and set out for Tibet in search of him, becoming separated from her regiment, lost in the mountains, she spent years of wandering in an alien and confusing culture. In this haunting book Xinran recreates Shu Wen's extraordinary journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. **** NOT EX LIB ****
Price:
7.00 GBP
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