Translated by Bruce Humes, this novel, first published in 2005, is being re-released by Penguin Random House, re-categorized in the genre of eco-fiction. In The Last Quarter of the Moon, prize-winning novelist Chi Zijian, creates a dazzling epic about an extraordinary woman bearing witness not just to the stories of her tribe but also to the transformation of China. Read more at Penguin Random House.
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.
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
Published: Oct 25, 2022 by Random House UK
ISBN: 9781784877897
Price: $21.99
Format: Paperback / softback | Trade paperback (US)
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Please note that my name is Bruce Humes, NOT Bruce Holmes. The latter misspelling occurred in the first print-run — 2013! — for the novel I translated, Last Quarter of the Moon.
It’s correct here, but I imagine that must be annoying 🙂