Mongólia

Two travellers' records alternate: the journal the vanished photographer kept on his wanderings, and the jottings of the envoy retracing his route. On the way they meet Gobi and steppe herders, reindeer people near Russia, camel breeders, a singer of overtone songs, a monk, and a Kazakh who hunts with eagles. Both men meet a nation rediscovering spirituality after decades of communist rule, where invention has rushed in to fill a memory erased by force, and where what is real and what is longed for are hard to tell apart.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Set in

Mongolia, China

First published

2003 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9788535904222 (original)