The last quarter of the moon
By: Chi Zijian ; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781846554810; 9781448137589
Subjects: Fiction
Description: At the end of the 20th-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen her family and her people. She is a member of the Evenki tribe who wander the remote forests of north-eastern China with their herds of reindeer, living in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel.