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02425aam a2200385Ia 4500 001 F53914083D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 130919r20142013enka 000 f eng 020 $a 0099555654 020 $a 9780099555650 035 $a (OCoLC)862090545 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d YDXCP $d CUD $d AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ZRS $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OHM $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h chi 043 $a a-cc--- 050 4 $a PL2847.T98 $b L37813 2014 082 04 $a 895.136 $2 23 100 1 $a Chi, Zijian, $d 1964- $e author. 245 14 $a The last quarter of the moon / $c Chi Zijian ; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Holmes. 264 1 $a London : $b Vintage Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 311 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a This Chinese translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2013. 520 $a A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-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. An idyllic childhood playing by the river ends with her father's death and the growing realisation that her mother's and uncle's relationship is not as simple as she thought. Then, in the 1930s, the intimate, secluded world of the tribe is shattered when the Japanese army invades China. The Evenki cannot avoid being pulled into the brutal conflict which marks the first step towards the end of their isolation. 650 0 $a Evenki (Asian people) $z China $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z China $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Evenki (Asian people) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917134 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Holmes, Bruce, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F53914083D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search