The Last Quarter of the Moon

by Chi Zijian

The North American debut of one of China's most celebrated authors, "Chi Zijian's beautifully realised novel offers a detailed portrait of a way of life hard to imagine today" (The Independent).

At the end of the twentieth century, an intergenerational Indigenous family of the Evenki tribe living deep in the forested mountains of China's eastern edge encounters existential change. An elder spins the daily tales of community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571311475
• ISBN13: 9781571311474
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 384 Pages