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The final installment in the saga of the shepherd boy first introduced in The Blue Sky and The Gray Earth, weaving the timeless tale of a boy on the cusp of manhood with the story of a people on the threshold. Dshurukuwaa has been sent to school in a provincial capital after being taken from his homeland in the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia. Torn between his people's traditional nomadic life and his early calling as a shaman on one hand, and the relative prosperity offered by a show more socialist education and conformity with modern ideals on the other, he falls in love with a young woman, and first experiences sexual intimacy. Still, the traditional world of his childhood--rich with nature, spirits, and a belief in Father Sky and Mother Earth--calls, and Dshurukuwaa cannot resist. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The White Mountain
- Original title
- Der weiße Berg
- Original publication date
- 2000 (original German: "Der weiße Berg") (original German: "Der weiße Berg"); 2014 (English translation) (English translation)
- People/Characters
- Dshurukawaa
- Important places
- Mongolia
- Original language
- German
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2682 .S297 .W45 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- English, French, German
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- ISBNs
- 4
