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The last quarter of the moon / Chi Zijian ; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes.
Van Pelt Library PL2847.T98 L37 2013b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chi, Zijian, 1964- author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evenki (Asian people)--China--Fiction.
- Evenki (Asian people).
- Women--China--Fiction.
- Women.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected proof.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill Secker, 2013.
- Summary:
- At the end of the 20th-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen her family and her people. She is a member of the Evenki tribe who wander the remote forests of north-eastern China with their herds of reindeer, living in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- OCLC:
- 865549436
- Publisher Number:
- 99952257984
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