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It is the final 1960s heyday for the people of the inner mongolian grasslandsa time when an ageold balance based on culture and tradition was maintained between the nomads, their livestock, and the wild wolves who roamed the plains. To ask other readers questions about wolf totemplease sign up. This time is necessary for searching and sorting links. But after finishing howard goldblatts translation of wolf totema book that we now know is the work of lu jiamin, using jiang rong as a pseudonymmy. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device. Click download or read online button to get wolf totem book now. Chinas runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural man asian literary prize published in china in 2004, wolf totem. The author, lu jiamin, wrote the book under the pseudonym jiang rong.
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He has published english translations of more than thirty novels and story collections by writers from china, taiwan, and hong kong. Read free book excerpt from wolf totem by rong jiang, page 2 of 4. Wolf totem by rong, jiang paperback book the fast free shipping. The descriptions were so vivid and so threedimensional that i could picture it clearly in my head. In 1997, he finished the first draft in beijing, at the end of 2003, and he finished the final draft in beijing, which was published in april 2004. Jiangs story is a careful, quiet one of cultures in collision, capably brought into unadorned english by translator goldblatt. Written by jiang rong, audiobook narrated by jason culp. We mongols learned from them how to hunt, how to encircle. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, wolf totem depicts the dying culture of the mongolsthe ancestors of the mongol hordes who at one time.
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