Sky Burial by Xinran

VINTAGE, 2005. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

London: Vintage. Near Fine. 2005. Reprint; Ninth Printing. Paperback. 130 X 14 X 197 millimeters . Minor reading creases and shelf wear. ; Ninth printing of Vintage paperback edition, 2005. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design uncredited incorporating images courtsey of J, Brown/AFP/Getty and Galen Rowell/Corbis. ; 176 pages; Author's follow up to The Good Women of China. 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, Kejun, after he disappeared 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 and silent plateaux and the magisterial mountain ranges, living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons and… Read More

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives, <i>The Good Women of China</i&g

Vintage, 2005. Paperback. New. 176 pages. 7.80x5.12x0.55 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.