Lù'nán

Lunan lies among the limestone uplands east of Kunming, a landscape famed for the Stone Forest, where weathered pillars rise in clusters from the earth. The country is home to the Sani, a branch of the Yi people, whose traditions give the rocks a life of their own. In the story of Ashima, a young woman resists a wealthy family's attempt to force her into marriage. After her beloved rescues her, a flood takes her life, and she becomes a stone whose echo answers voices in the hills.