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The Return / Die Rückkehr
The Novel of My Life
The big autobiographical novel by the shaman and bestselling author Galsan Tschinag. After many years on the road, he returns to his people, the Tuvans of northwestern Mongolia, and looks back upon his life – his life as a chief, as a German-language writer, as a mediator between the worlds of tradition and modernity. And he recalls the fulfilment of his life’s dream: in 1995, he led his people in a huge caravan back into the heights of the Altai Mountains, their original homeland, so that they...
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The big autobiographical novel by the shaman and bestselling author Galsan Tschinag. After many years on the road, he returns to his people, the Tuvans of northwestern Mongolia, and looks back upon his life – his life as a chief, as a German-language writer, as a mediator between the worlds of tradition and modernity. And he recalls the fulfilment of his life’s dream: in 1995, he led his people in a huge caravan back into the heights of the Altai Mountains, their original homeland, so that they could resume their nomadic way of life.
2020, 253 pages
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Galsan Tschinag
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Galsan Tschinag was born in western Mongolia, the youngest son of a nomad family, he is patriarch of the Tuvans, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in Mongolia. In his home country, his name is Irgit Schynykbaioglu Dshurukuwaa. Tschinag studied German in Leipzig and has been writing in German since then. He has been making his livelihood as a freelance writer since 1991, living mainly in Ulan Bator, but he also spends many months on the road with his tribe in the Altai Mountains. Galsan Tschinag sees himself as an intermediary between cultures and spends a great deal of his time on reading tours abroad. He was awarded the Heimito von Doderer Prize in 2001.
Galsan Tschinag
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Galsan Tschinag was born in western Mongolia, the youngest son of a nomad family, he is patriarch of the Tuvans, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority...
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France (Métailié), Turkey (Vakıf Pazarlama)
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Serbia (Clio)
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Galsan TschinagYear of Publication: 2005
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France (Métailié)
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English World rights (Oolichan Books), Spanish world rights (Siruela), Basque (Desclee de Brouwer), France (Métailié), Italy (Aer), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Roskilde), Korea (Suda), Turkey (VakifBank), Israel (Sifriat Poalim)