The Critics: “Sky Burial”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.22.05 | 11:41 PM ET
The Los Angeles Times reviewed what sounds like an unusual novel about Tibet: “Sky Burial” by Chinese journalist Xinran. The novel, writes Seth Faison, 
“offers a perspective Western readers rarely get: a Chinese person who sympathizes with Tibetans. It’s a compelling story about a woman from Suzhou who goes to Tibet to search for her lost husband. She encounters danger and hides with a nomadic family in the vast openness of the Tibetan plateau, only to drift for 30 years and become thoroughly immersed in Tibetan culture before she can complete her goal.”
The novel was inspired by a true story, and the Times contributor liked it. “Time is uncertain in ‘Sky Burial,’ which lends a mesmerizing, floating quality to the narrative,” Faison writes. “I felt lulled into a sense of timelessness, aware of the connectedness of all things, as one may experience in visits to Tibet.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
