Summary
In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country’s history.‘A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them’.At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099555650 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099555654 |
| Author: | Chi Zijian, Bruce Humes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Zijian has an extraordinary gift for storytelling and her steely narrator is a true heroine, surviving war and encroaching modernity. Simply magnificent
Zijian has an extraordinary gift for storytelling and her steely narrator is a true heroine, surviving war and encroaching modernity. Simply magnificent * Times *An atmospheric modern folk-tale, the saga of the Evenki clan of Inner Mongolia – nomadic reindeer herders whose traditional life alongside the Argun river endured unchanged for centuries… This is a fitting tribute to the Evenki by a writer of rare talent * Financial Times *Chi Zijian’s beautifully realised novel offers a detailed portrait of a way of life hard to imagine today…It was surely no easy task to make this ancient, wise narrator sound convincing in English. Bruce Humes’s skilful translation is pitch-perfect * Independent *This is a beautifully simple book offering a detailed yet unromantic picture … The setting is spectacularly rendered and this idyllic corner of China is as prominent as any other character in the book * We Love This Book *Masterfully told, with simplicity and empathy, in a direct and credible voice that not only feels unlike a translation, but unlike a fiction at all * Independent on Sunday *One of the most extraordinary novels you are likely to read for quite some time…touching, absolutely fascinating. * Asian Review of Books *When you open this book you can feel the grandmother’s breath and hear the hidden voices of the women of the Evenki tribe of northeast China – a moving story told by a great Chinese writer – Xinran, author of The Good Women of ChinaEnthrallingly evoked – Jane Housham * Guardian *[A] remarkable story…. Zijian’s language is infused with natural images of her native China – Freya McClements * Irish Times *
About The Author
Chi Zijian
Chi Zijian was born in Mohe in 1964. She started writing while at school and had her first story published in Northern Literature magazine when she was at college. She is the only writer to have won the Lu Xun Literary Award three times. The Last Quarter of the Moon also won the Mao Dun Literary Award. Her work has been translated into many languages.
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