A haunting book, following the journey of Xinran through Tibet, as shocking, moving and unique as the Sky Burial itself, the ritual of sacrifice to vultures.

A haunting book, following the journey of Xinran through Tibet, as shocking, moving and unique as the Sky Burial itself, the ritual of sacrifice to vultures.

Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958. In the late 1980s she began working for Chinese radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives The Good Women of China. She now has a regular column in the Guardian.

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