Beschreibung:
Simplified Chinese. A novel: Wolf Totem. The English translation by Howard Goldblatt is released March 2008. Stories of a student learning to live with the wolves roaming on the vast Mongolian grassland. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
This book with Jiang Rong as the author was published by Changjiang Literature and Art Press, mainly narrating an educated youth depended on each other with plain wolves and nomadic nations when he went to live and work in a production team in Inner Mongolia grassland of the mainland of China in 1960s to 1970s. The background of the story is at the end of 1960s at the last original grassland near the boundary in Inner Mongolia of the mainland of China. The Mongolian herdsmen still kept the nomadic ecological characteristics. Being free and romantic, they were breeding cattle and sheep on the grassland to maintain the ecological balance of the grassland with groups of fierce plain wolves. They hated the wolves - they were enemies invading their homes; while they respected the wolves - the wolves helped the herdsmen kill those herbivores which could not be overloaded for the grassland: Mongolian gazelles, rabbits and large and small grassland rats.
This book with Jiang Rong as the author was published by Changjiang Literature and Art Press, mainly narrating an educated youth depended on each other with plain wolves and nomadic nations when he went to live and work in a production team in Inner Mongolia grassland of the mainland of China in 1960s to 1970s. The background of the story is at the end of 1960s at the last original grassland near the boundary in Inner Mongolia of the mainland of China. The Mongolian herdsmen still kept the nomadic ecological characteristics. Being free and romantic, they were breeding cattle and sheep on the grassland to maintain the ecological balance of the grassland with groups of fierce plain wolves. They hated the wolves - they were enemies invading their homes; while they respected the wolves - the wolves helped the herdsmen kill those herbivores which could not be overloaded for the grassland: Mongolian gazelles, rabbits and large and small grassland rats.