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\"Blue<\/a>Far atop the High Altai Mountains in western Mongolia is an unpredictable climate of extremes \u2013 breathtaking in its warmer beauty, yet unforgiving in the harshness of its frigid months. Unknown to most Westerners, the Republic of Tuva and its nomadic inhabitants have endured a long history of occupation, caught at the blurred intersection of the Russian, Chinese, and Kazakhstani borders, entangled in a mesh of incompatible cultures, past and present.<\/p>\n

Amid this fraught landscape, Galsan Tschinag’s autobiographical novel, The Blue Sky<\/em>, opens with a disturbing dream: “This story may have begun in a dream. Was it a preparation for things to come, a warning perhaps? For it was a bad dream — a nightmare.” But the young protagonist is unaware that he should not voice his nightmare: “Don’t tell your dream to anybody, tell it to a hole in the ground, and spit three times.” He innocently shares his anguish with his mother between great sobs, and thus seals his unhappy fate.\u00a0 …[click here for more<\/a>]\n

Review<\/strong>: San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, November 24, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

“Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New & Notable Books,\u201d The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

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\"blue-sky\"Far atop the High Altai Mountains in western Mongolia is an unpredictable climate of extremes \u2013 breathtaking in its warmer beauty, yet unforgiving in the harshness of its frigid months. Unknown to most Westerners, the Republic of Tuva and its nomadic inhabitants have endured a long history of occupation, caught at the blurred intersection of the Russian, Chinese, and Kazakhstani borders, entangled in a mesh of incompatible cultures, past and present.<\/p>\n

Amid this fraught landscape, Galsan Tschinag’s autobiographical novel, The Blue Sky<\/em>, opens with a disturbing dream: “This story may have begun in a dream. Was it a preparation for things to come, a warning perhaps? For it was a bad dream — a nightmare.” But the young protagonist is unaware that he should not voice his nightmare: “Don’t tell your dream to anybody, tell it to a hole in the ground, and spit three times.” He innocently shares his anguish with his mother between great sobs, and thus seals his unhappy fate. …[click here for more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, November 24, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

“Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New & Notable Books,\u201d The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

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