The Last Quarter of the Moon: One of the most pressing stories of our time

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels that reconnect us to the natural world and inspire change. It includes "The Snow Child," which tells the story of a young girl's journey to save her people from a devastating flood.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them.

At the end of the twentieth century, an old woman sits among the birch trees and reflects on the joys and tragedies that have befallen her people. A member of the Evenki tribe who wander the forests of north-eastern China, hers was a life lived in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel.

Then, in the 1930s, the intimate, secluded world of the tribe is shattered when the Japanese army invades China. The Evenki cannot avoid being pulled into the brutal conflict that marks the beginning of the end of life as they know it.

An atmospheric modern folk-tale, the saga of the Evenki clan of Inner Mongolia - nomadic reindeer herders whose traditional life alongside the Argun river endured unchanged for centuries - is a fitting tribute to the Evenki by a writer of rare talent.

Financial Times

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784877897