false 183845 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg 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.]]> 183845 20 962014 2004 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet total:583|5:180|4:216|3:149|2:26|1:12| 583 2276 878 172 104161 3.95 1176 307 53312980 92370 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.35 23 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
]]> 2004 4 5 false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 00:29:14 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 20:48:38 -0700 2009
Ketika lembaran terakhir buku ini ditutup, cuma bisa menarik nafas dan mikir: "K...more...]]> 35101955 1597717 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
]]> 2004 3 3 false Sun Oct 12 07:12:30 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 20:24:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 49734961 348055 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
]]> 2004 4 2 false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 20:53:46 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 21:26:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 27089309 1007892 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
]]> 2004 3 2 false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 21:16:15 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 14 00:47:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4913773 299179 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.95 460 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.]]> 2004 4 2 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 21 20:32:02 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 20:32:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 35885272 810660 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 5 3 false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 15:51:01 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 19:09:45 -0700 2008
I picked up this book at the library because I was looking for an author whose name began with X to finish my A-Z author challenge, and this was a slim book.

I found that I could not put it down. It was a beautifully written love story which was hear...more...]]> 47467470 440859 977118 0099461935 9780099461937 2 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179952181m/977118.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179952181s/977118.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977118.Sky_Burial 4.14 7 Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways--the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here.

Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book--a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth.

The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died.

And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one.

Sky Burial is a slight book--little more than an extended short story--and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. --Carey Green

]]> 2004 4 1 false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 04:30:07 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 00:47:22 -0800 2009 1
I enjoyed this book. It was a very easy read, written simply but told a beauti...more...]]> 8653368 252020 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 4 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 04 10:59:26 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 11:17:27 -0800 2007 more...]]> 8321864 322412 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 27 14:08:55 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 14 11:42:40 -0800 2008
Sky Burial is a love story set in both Tibet and China in the mid to fairly late 1900's, with the...more...]]> 44765747 37487 183844 1400095646 9781400095643 21 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183844.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183844.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183844.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.80 88 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.]]> 2004 3 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:20:33 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:37:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38240905 272449 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 4 0 false Thu Nov 20 12:37:18 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 12:38:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 77831681 679175 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 04:40:45 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 05:05:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 55735532 2109023 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
]]> 2004 5 2 false Mon May 11 18:34:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 19:28:39 -0700 2009 *hugging tightly*

pas gw baca..gw ga kecewa..mang bagus banged ceritanya..

mengisahkan seorang penduduk Cina, Shu Wen, yang juga seorang ...more...]]> 53436694 1598290 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 23:35:10 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 23:35:38 -0700 2009 remember one thing:
just staying alive
is a victory'


Xin Ran, penulis buku ini yang merupakan penyiar, telah lama mendengar rumor tentang seorang tentara Cina yang secara brutal diumpankan pada burung-burung Nasar pada masa pembebasan Tibet oleh ten...more...]]> 24965763 1253478 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 4 1 false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 20 05:25:29 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 16:51:09 -0700 2009
Shu Wen leaves China to look for her husband of just 30 days whom she is told has been killed in Tibet. What follows is a 30 year search for her husband and the people she meets along the ...more...]]> 59541242 1740420 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 3 0 false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 14:25:51 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 14:21:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 81470432 2969156 977118 0099461935 9780099461937 2 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179952181m/977118.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179952181s/977118.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977118.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways--the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here.

Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book--a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth.

The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died.

And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one.

Sky Burial is a slight book--little more than an extended short story--and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. --Carey Green

]]> 2004 5 0 false Fri Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 06:01:11 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 24 22:56:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38607423 6049 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 5 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 06:31:14 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 06:35:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 60658605 804942 183845 0385515480 9780385515481 130 <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112m/183845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521112s/183845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183845.Sky_Burial_An_Epic_Love_Story_of_Tibet 3.90 583 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.]]> 2004 5 0 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 11:55:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 12:07:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51134984 138700 3236561 9789791275026 16 <![CDATA[Sky Burial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665m/3236561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209089665s/3236561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236561.Sky_Burial 3.90 583 Dia bertekad menemukan sendiri cinta sejatinya itu di pedalaman Tibet.

Keganasan alam pedalaman Tibet bukanlah satu-satunya teror yang dialami Wen dan para prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat. Di tengah perjalanan, setiap harinya dua orang dalam pasukan terbunuh dengan belati menancap di tubuh mereka.
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Update 12 April 2009:
200 halaman pertama masih penasaran kenapa Sky Burial yang menjadi judul buku ini. Yah memang sih sudah dijawab pada halaman 154 bahwa Sky Burial atau pemakaman langit itu adalah pemakaman yang dilakukan diatas gu...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=183845