额尔古纳河右岸

An old Evenki woman, near the end of her people's reindeer-herding life in the forests of the far northeast, tells the story of her clan across a century. Chi Zijian writes with deep respect for their shamanism and their land, and the nature writing is lovely. The narrative can feel elegiac by programme, but it gives a rare voice to a vanishing world. Mao Dun Prize, 2008.

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