Sky Burial - Rilegato

Xinran

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ISBN 10: 0385515480 ISBN 13: 9780385515481

Casa editrice: Nan a Talese, 2005

Riassunto

In 1958, notified that her young husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey that brings her back to a new China, transformed by the Cultural Revolution, in a poignant novel based on a true story. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“I read Sky Burial in one sitting, not being able to wait to get to the end of the tale. I’ve read love stories before, but none like this. One could only wish to be loved so, or, even better, to love so.”—Da Chen

“A romantic epic of loss and redemption, of stoic constancy in the face of the vagaries of fate.” —Financial Times

“Part family story, part mystical adventure. It’s like Wild Swans crossed with Seven Years in Tibet —Giles Foden, The Guardian

“This story of one extraordinary woman written by another extraordinary woman will stay with you long after closing the book.” —Sunday Times

L'autore:

Xinran is the author of The Good Women of China, a seminal work about the lives of Chinese women. She was born in Beijing in 1958, and by the late 1980s had become one of China's most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London, where she currently writes a regular column in the Guardian.

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• Editore: Nan a Talese
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385515480
• ISBN 13: 9780385515481
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 201