Now here is
an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice. Set in
Chinese-occupied Tibet and based on a true story, Xinran's extraordinary
second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of
the world's most mysterious and inaccessible countries. In March
1958, Shu Wen, a young woman and doctor learns that her beloved
husband, an idealistic army doctor, has died while serving in Tibet
not even a hundred days after their marriage. Unwilling to accept
this as fact, she sets out to find out what happened to him by joining
his regiment in Tibet. For over twenty years she walked, searching
for her husband on a life-changing journey through the Tibetan countryside
that leads her to a deep appreciation of Tibet in all its beauty
and brutality. Sadly, when she finally discovers the truth about
her husband, she must carry her knowledge back to a China that,
in her absence, has experienced the Cultural Revolution and changed
beyond her ken. Xinran has done an amazing job in depicting the
vast Tibetan landscape to us. Surely you too will cry as I did when
nearing the end of this amazing must read!
