Mongolian Short Stories

Mongolian Short Stories
Title Mongolian Short Stories PDF eBook
Author Henry G. Schwarz
Publisher Western Washington University, Center for East Asian Studies
Pages 214
Release 1989
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Suncranes and Other Stories

Suncranes and Other Stories
Title Suncranes and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 270
Release 2021-07-06
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0231551819

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary snapshots of Mongolian life throughout this tumult. Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices and their vivid portraits of nomads, revolution, and the endless steppe. Spanning the years following the socialist revolution of 1921 through the early twenty-first century, these stories from the country’s most highly regarded prose writers show how Mongolian culture has forged links between the traditional and the modern. Writers employ a wide range of styles, from Aesopian fables through socialist realism to more experimental forms, influenced by folktales and epics as well as Western prose models. They depict the drama of a nomadic population struggling to understand a new approach to life imposed by a foreign power while at the same time benefiting from reforms, whether in the capital city Ulaanbaatar or on the steppe. Across the mix of stories, Mongolia’s majestic landscape and the people’s deep connection to it come through vividly. For all English-speaking readers curious about Mongolia’s people and culture, Simon Wickhamsmith’s translations make available this captivating literary tradition and its rich portrayals of the natural and social worlds.

Mongolian Folktales

Mongolian Folktales
Title Mongolian Folktales PDF eBook
Author Hilary Roe Metternich
Publisher
Pages 140
Release 1996
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A collection of twenty-five traditional Mongolian folktales about animals, magic, domestic affairs, and the relationship between man and nature.

The Mongolian Wizard

The Mongolian Wizard
Title The Mongolian Wizard PDF eBook
Author Michael Swanwick
Publisher Tor Books
Pages 26
Release 2012-07-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466823186

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With "The Mongolian Wizard," Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick launches a new fiction series at Tor.com -- beginning with this story of a very unusual international conference in a fractured Europe that never was. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When Things Get Dark

When Things Get Dark
Title When Things Get Dark PDF eBook
Author Matthew Davis
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 321
Release 2010-02-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1429957875

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At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town—and a country—undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians Matt meets, but also focuses on the author's downward spiral into alcohol abuse and violence--a scenario he saw played out by many of the Mongolian men around him. Matt's self-destruction culminates in a drunken fight with three men that forces him to a hospital to have his kidneys X-rayed. He hits bottom in that cold hospital room, his body naked and shivering, a bloodied Mongolian man staring at him from an open door, the irrational thought in his head that maybe he is going to die there. His personal struggles are balanced with insightful descriptions of customs and interactions, and interlaced with essays on Mongolian history and culture that make for a fascinating glimpse of a mysterious place and people.

Some Short Stories from Mongolia

Some Short Stories from Mongolia
Title Some Short Stories from Mongolia PDF eBook
Author Nacagdorž Dašdoržijn
Publisher
Pages 202
Release 1988
Genre Mongolia
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
Title The Secret History of the Mongol Queens PDF eBook
Author Jack Weatherford
Publisher Crown
Pages 332
Release 2011-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 0307407160

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“A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan “Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated Press The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section about the queens from the Secret History of the Mongols, and, with that one act, the dynasty of these royals had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, a groundbreaking and magnificently researched narrative, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.