by Xinran · Droemer Knaur · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426778784
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«Himmelsbegräbnis» is Xinran's love story, published by Droemer Knaur in paperback (175 pages, in German).
Shu Wen was married to her husband, a military doctor posted to Tibet who disappears under mysterious circumstances, for only a hundred days. Determined not to declare him dead, the protagonist travels to the region and spends thirty years finding out what became of him, on a journey through landscapes and cultures unfamiliar to her.
The edition was published in 2006 with the subtitle «Die Geschichte einer großen Liebe»; the translation from English is by Sigrid Langhaeuser.
For readers of memoirs, travel and history, with an interest in twentieth-century China and Tibetan culture.
Xuē Xīnrán is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues. She was a popular radio personality in China with a call-in program named "Words on the Night Breeze" from 1989 to 1997. The program focused on women's issues and life stories. She was well known for travelling extensively in China to interview women for her work. In 1997, she moved to London and began writing stories of the women she met along her journeys. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, becoming an international bestseller. She frequently contributes to The Guardian and the BBC.
