Can't Put The Book Away. Review on Sky Burial - Xinran

Having read so many books over the years, only few books have that quality to keep me hooked on to it.

I mostly read murder mysteries, thrillers, ghost stories and sometimes romantic novels(everyone need some love in life), coming across Sky Burial was just some miracle.

This book was suggested to me by my mother and she definitely tried to hand it over to me many times so that I start reading this book, and I kept delaying. It was not my usual book genre to read. Then something struck me and I started reading the book. Did some research on the book and got to know that sky burial is a Tibetan ritual here the dead is eaten by the vultures and said to be taken back to the nature from which is it made.

Most of the books have slow plots and takes time to build-up the story, but few pages of this book made me glued to it for few hours. Many of the novels is by third person but this book Sky Burial has the first person who is Shu Wen.

She met Xue Xinran, the writer, in a tea shop where she narrates her life journey in Tibet while she was trying to find her missing husband. Shu Wen who’s a Chinese doctor gets married to a military doctor; later her husband is sent to Tibet to subdue Tibetans and bring them under Chinese rule. During this she was informed that her husband has gone missing and she decides to search her husband by herself. She spends 30 years of her life in getting facts of her husband’s whereabouts.

I definitely want to write all that I know about this book, but then how others will take up this book to read, once the climax is out. This story has something in it that made me feel that life is not a just a journey but also about finding what one truly is and can do. The subtle unfold of the story by Shu Wen and beautiful way Xinran has put the story into words just made me keep reading the whole journey. This book, definitely, is one of my favorites and a must read.