Sky burial: an epic love story of Tibet (Penguin Drop Caps Ser.)
Women biography, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Inspired by a brief 1994 interview with an aged Chinese woman named Shu Wen, Chinese journalist Xinran describes Wen's 30-year search for her husband in Tibet, where he disappeared in 1958. Wen's husband, Kejun, an army doctor, is posted to… Tibet and two months later is reported killed. Stunned and disbelieving, 26-year-old Wen is determined to find Kejun herself; a doctor also, she gets herself posted to the isolated Tibetan area where Kejun had been. There, she endures much hardship, rescues a Tibetan noblewoman, is separated from her fellow soldiers, and goes native with a tribe of yak herders, Wen learns the circumstances of Kejun's death and understands that her husband was caught in a fatal misunderstanding between two vastly different cultures. 2004.