The Blue Sky by Tschinag, Galsan

The Blue Sky

A boy's nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that "captures the mountains, valleys...
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Author: Galsan Tschinag
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Blue Sky by Tschinag, Galsan

The Blue Sky

Dhs. 83.84

The Blue Sky

Dhs. 83.84
Author: Galsan Tschinag
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 Mountains of northern Mongolia, a young shepherd boy comes of age, tending his family's flocks on the mountain steppes and knowing little of the world beyond the surrounding peaks. But his nomadic way of life is increasingly disrupted by modernity.

This confrontation comes in stages. First, his older siblings leave the family yurt to attend a distant boarding school. Then the boy's grandmother dies, and with her his connection to the old ways. But perhaps the greatest tragedy strikes when his dog, Arsylang--"all that was left to me"--ingests poison set out by the boy's father to protect his herd from wolves. "Why is it so?" Dshurukawaa cries out in despair to the Heavenly Blue Sky, to be answered only by the wind.

Rooted in the oral traditions of the Tuvan people, The Blue Sky weaves the timeless story of a boy poised on the cusp of manhood with the story of a people on the threshold.

"Thrilling. . . . Tschinag makes it easy for his readers to fall into the beautiful rhythms of the Tuvans' daily life." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"In this pristine and concentrated tale of miraculous survival and anguished loss, Tschinag evokes the nurturing warmth of a family within the circular embrace of a yurt as an ancient way of life lived in harmony with nature becomes endangered." --Booklist



Author: Galsan Tschinag
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.76w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781571310644

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 126681 / Blue Sky

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