The Blue Sky

by Galsan Tschinag

Book Overview

A boy's nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that "captures the mountains, valleys and steppes in all their surpassing beauty and brutality" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).In the high Altai... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157131055X
• ISBN13: 9781571310552
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly real- this memoir immerses you in Tuvan life in the 1940's

It reads as if the author was truly still a small child narrating his days on the mountains with his dog that is like a brother guardian and with his beloved adopted grandmother. A wonderful book

Simple, Moving Tale

This lovely novel of a nomadic Mongolian family's transition into the modern world (from and about the youngest son's incipient shamanic point of view) is a simple, yet magical, deep and moving story. It made me wish the other two books in the trilogy (his middle and later years I presume) were translated. This is such a beautiful/terrible world of harsh barren life and the conjunction of both the inexorable/inevitable cultural change specific to that time and place and loss of childhood we all experience. It may be simple but it isn't simply a children's tale.