
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 & 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 & alien landscape of Tibet in the vast & silent plateaus & the magisterial mountain ranges living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons & struggling to survive In this haunting book Xinran recreates Shu Wen's remarkable journey in an epic story of love loss loyalty & survival Moving shocking & ultimately uplifting Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman & a land both at the mercy of fate & politics