Twenty-One Days

After a long absence, Galsan Tschinag returns to his homeland. His children and parents, his friends and relatives come to greet him and his wife. Twenty-one days they will stay, and Galsan Tschinag reflects on these three weeks in his inimitable fashion.

He writes about life in the yurts of the Tuvan nomads, of the traditions of this small ethnic minority in Mongolia. He takes the reader on marmot hunts, shows them the  rituals of birth and death in the steppes, the sacred ceremonies of giving and taking in the yurts. Galsan Tschinag shows us how rooted these people are in their homeland, and how they are adapting to new times while still observing the old ways of life.