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Sky Burial

Paperback • 2005 • English

Sky Burial

By Xinran Xinran

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About the book

As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who had been serving as a doctor in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast...Show more

Biography: general

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ISBN

9780099461937

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Sky Burial

Format

Paperback

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