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Book by book, Tschinag is championing his people and preserving their traditions. He gives a whole new meaning to the power contained in the written word." -San Francisco Chronicle

Tschinag gives a whole new meaning to the power contained in the written word."-San Francisco Chronicle

Dazzling . . . Makes the alluring ordinary, the ordinary alluring."-TIME

In the Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan people's ancient way of life is colliding with the pervasive influence of modernity. For the young shepherd boy Dshurukuwaa, the confrontation comes in stages. First his older siblings leave the family yurt to attend a distant boarding school, followed by the death of his beloved grandmother and with it, the connection to the tribe's traditions and deep relationship to the land. Bu...

This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways and new. Taken from his ancestral home, he reunites with his siblings at a boarding school, where his brother also serves as principal. Soon he come...

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