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Wolf Totem

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Jiang Rong
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

By Jiang Rong
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

By Jiang Rong
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

By Jiang Rong
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

By Jiang Rong
Read by Jason Culp
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

By Jiang Rong
Read by Jason Culp
Translated by Howard Goldblatt

Paperback $17.00

Mar 31, 2009 | 544 Pages

Ebook $13.99

Mar 27, 2008 | 544 Pages

Audiobook Download $30.00

May 15, 2008 | 1350 Minutes

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    About Wolf Totem

    China’s runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize

    Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols–the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world–and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.

    About Wolf Totem

    China’s runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize

    Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols–the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world–and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.

    About Wolf Totem

    China’s runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize

    Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.

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    About Jiang Rong

    Jiang Rong was born in Jiangsu in 1946. His father’s job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine Art in 1967. His education cut short by events in China, the 21-year-old… More about Jiang Rong

    About Jiang Rong

    Jiang Rong was born in Jiangsu in 1946. His father’s job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine Art in 1967. His education cut short by events in China, the 21-year-old… More about Jiang Rong

    About Jiang Rong

    Jiang Rong was born in Jiangsu in 1946. His father’s job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine Art in 1967. His education cut short by events in China, the 21-year-old… More about Jiang Rong

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 31, 2009 | 544 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143115144

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2008 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9781440639586

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    May 15, 2008 | 1350 Minutes | ISBN 9781436228022

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    Praise

    “An intellectual adventure story. . . . Five hundred bloody and instructive pages later, you just want to stand up and howl.”
    -Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle

    “[Jiang Rong] is on the way to becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial Chinese novelists in the world.”
    –The Guardian (London)

    “Electrifying. . . . The power of Jiang’s prose (and of Howard Goldblatt’s excellent translation) is evident. . . . This semi-autographical novel is a literary triumph.”
    –National Geographic Traveler (Book of the Month)

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