Blogs in March 2020

Last Night in Nuuk 5th March 2020

Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk, is home to fewer than 18,000 people. It’s the cultural and economic center of a country that is sparsely populated, difficult to reach, and almost entirely covered by ice. Korneliussen takes us there through this...

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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade 4th March 2020

Born on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna’s future seems decided when, as an infant, her foot is crushed by a horse. Her clan believes she has been cursed by bad luck, and she is...

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The White Mountain 4th March 2020

The story begins with the arrival of triplets, born to a woman who has given birth three times previously, and buried each child shortly thereafter. This time the delivery goes well. That same night a family of five suffocates...

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The Gray Earth 4th March 2020

This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to...

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Tea of Ulaanbaatar 4th March 2020

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As...

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