Suncranes and Other Stories : : Modern Mongolian Short Fiction.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Anudar, S.,; Baast, B.,; Bathuyag, P.,; Bolor-Erdene, H.,; Buyannemeh, S.,; Chimid, D.,; Damdinsüren, Ts.,; Dashdoorov, S.,; Erdene, S.,; Galsan, Ch.,; Garmaa, D.,; Lodoidamba, Ch.,; Luvsantseren, P.,; Mend-Ooyo, G.,; Namdag, D.,; Natsagdorj, D.,; Rinchen, B.,; Tsend, O.,; Udval, S.,; Ulambayar, Ts.,; Uyansüh, M.,; Yadamsüren, M.,; Ölziitögs, L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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. S...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• A Note on Mongolian Names
• 1. Something Wonderful
• 2. The Shelducks
• 3. Dark Cliffs
• 4. Things That Had Never Been Seen
• 5. The Young Couple
• 6. What Changed Soli
• 7. Two White Things
• 8. The Morning of the First
• 9. The Saiga
• 10. A Great Mystery
• 11. Bunia Takes Wing
• 12. Waiting for What He Has Lost
• 13. The Green- painted Car
• 14. Images from a Single Day
• 15. Blue as Water
• 16. He Came with a Spare Horse
• 17. Suncranes
• 18. The Cricket
• 19. The Wolf ’s Lair
• 20. The Ballad of the Unweaned Camel
• 21. Hulan
• 22. Heaven’s Daughter
• 23. Raul and Raul
• 24. Everything
• 25. Room for Rent
• 26. Wings
• 27. The Composer
• Glossary
• Notes on the Stories
• Acknowledgments