{"product_id":"winter-pasture-one-womans-journey-with-chinas-kazakh-herders","title":"Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eWinter Pasture is a bestselling book in China that has been widely acclaimed in the international literary community. It is a personal memoir by Li Juan, who decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their animals to pasture for the winter in a remote region of the Altai Mountains. Li vividly captures the hardships and ordinary preoccupations of the people and the natural world, creating an intimate bond with the rugged people, remote places, and nomadic lifestyle. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 February 2021\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Astra Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the People's Literature Award, Winter Pasture has been a bestselling book in China for several years. Li Juan has been widely lauded in the international literary community for her unique contribution to the narrative non-fiction genre. Winter Pasture is her crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLi Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep, and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called winter pasture occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as sister-in-law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bringing this faraway world to English-language readers here for the first time, Li creates an intimate bond with the rugged people, the remote places, and the nomadic lifestyle. In the signature style that made her famous, she weaves a rich tapestry of stories, observations, and insights that will leave readers in awe of the human spirit's resilience and determination in the face of adversity. Winter Pasture is a testament to the power of literature to transcend boundaries and connect people across cultures and generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 542g \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 163 x 236 x 31 (mm) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781662600333\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Li Juan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44097426194682,"sku":"9781662600333","price":18.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/9781662600333.jpg?v=1628853497","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/winter-pasture-one-womans-journey-with-chinas-kazakh-herders","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}