The Gray Earth
A Fiction, Asia, Cultural book. This exceptional semi-autobiographical novel depicted a residential school experience that paralleled that of descriptions of...
This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways and new. Taken from his ancestral home, he reunites with his siblings at a boarding school, where his brother also serves as principal. Soon he comes to understand that the main purpose of the school is to strip the Tuvans of their language and traditions, and to make them conform to party ideals. When tragedy strikes, Dshurukawaa begins to sense the larger import of his visions, and with it a possible escape. Tschinag's lyrical language, his striking characterizations, and his evocation of a singular way of life make The Gray Earth an unforgettable read and a worthy follow-up to The Blue Sky.
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9781571310651 / 0
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This exceptional semi-autobiographical novel depicted a residential school experience that paralleled that of descriptions of indigenous residential school survivors in Canada as well. I.e. both entailed taking ethnic minorities' children away from their families in order to carry out forced linguistic and cultural assimilation into... [This book has been translated into English under the title The Grey Earth.]Die graue Erde (1999) is the second volume of an autobiographical trilogy written in German by the Tuvan shaman, poet and novelist Galsan Tschinag (b. 1944).(*) I review the first volume herehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...In that review I supply some... The Blue Sky - The Gray Earth - and the third (untranslated yet?) is called The White Mountain. At the end of the 1st our boy was alienated from the Blue Sky, and we pick up his story in that state of disenchantment: Away from the mute and pitiless sky that supposedly knows all, sees all, and hears all, but pretends to be deaf and blind...
