Book Overview
A boy's nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that "captures the mountains, valleys and steppes in all their surpassing beauty and brutality" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).In the high Altai... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:157131055X
ISBN13:9781571310552
Release Date:September 2006
Publisher:Milkweed Editions
Length:209 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Incredibly real- this memoir immerses you in Tuvan life in the 1940's
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
It reads as if the author was truly still a small child narrating his days on the mountains with his dog that is like a brother guardian and with his beloved adopted grandmother. A wonderful book
Simple, Moving Tale
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This lovely novel of a nomadic Mongolian family's transition into the modern world (from and about the youngest son's incipient shamanic point of view) is a simple, yet magical, deep and moving story. It made me wish the other two books in the trilogy (his middle and later years I presume) were translated. This is such a beautiful/terrible world of harsh barren life and the conjunction of both the inexorable/inevitable cultural change specific to that time and place and loss of childhood we all experience. It may be simple but it isn't simply a children's tale.
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