乌尔禾

In the 1960s, in Urho on the edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert in Xinjiang, a Han veteran of the Korean War looks after a flock of sheep for the Production and Construction Corps. The locals call him Hailibu, after the Mongol hunter of legend who understood what animals say, and who chose to be turned to stone so that he could warn the herders of the disaster the birds had told him about. The boy Weijiang grows so close to the lambs that he sets a pair free before the season for it. The story binds two men and a woman together on the steppe, and weaves the old legend into the present-day life of the region's Mongol herders.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2006 by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House