false 183845 20 It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of <i>The Good Women of China</i>, 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.<br><br>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&#8217;s death.<br><i><br></i>In the haunting <i>Sky Burial, </i>Xinran has recreated Shu Wen&#8217;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. 962014 2004 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet total:556|5:170|4:204|3:144|2:26|1:12| 556 2162 827 164 4 5 false 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...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Oct 12 07:12:30 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 20:24:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false 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...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 4 2 false 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...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 12:37:18 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 12:38:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false 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...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:53:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 09:19:20 -0700 2009 1
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...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:35:31 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:40:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 21 22:07:56 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 18:34:48 -0700 2009 ” Sky burial atau pemakaman langit adalah salah satu tradisi bangsa Tibet dalam memakamkan orang yang sudah meninggal. Tubuh jenazah dipotong-potong hingga beberapa bagian, kemudian di bawa ke puncak gunung agar burung-burung Nasar bisa memakannya....more...]]>