Xinran

De 1989 à 1997, Xinran a présenté chaque nuit à la radio chinoise une émission au cours de laquelle elle invitait les femmes à parler d'elles-mêmes, sans tabou. Elle a rencontré des centaines d'entre elles. Avec compassion elle les a écoutées se raconter et lui confier leurs secrets enfouis au plus profond …

Sky Burial is a 2004 novel by Xue Xinran, her second. Xue is a British-Chinese journalist who writes for The Guardian. Sky Burial was listed in the Los Angeles Times as one of their favorite non-fiction books of 2005.

Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big city.The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t managed to produce a …