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