Wolf Totem
Books | Fiction / Historical / General
3.9
Jiang Rong
China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.
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Author
Jiang Rong
Pages
544
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2008-03-27
ISBN
1440639582 9781440639586
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Beautiful window into mid 20th century Mongolia and its people. Honest, unflinching from his own flaws, the translation presents a stark version of it's narrators journals and the way he sees himself. "
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