Category: Books
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Author: Jiang Rong
This is a fantastic book that shows how important it is to maintain balance in an ecosystem.
The tale is that of a chinese student during the Cultural Revolution who is posted to Mongolia to live with the nomadic herdsmen there. He learns of the importance of the Mongolian Wolves to all the species that inhabit the grassland, from the grass itself to the human herdsmen. The wolves affect the hardiness and temperament of the dogs, the horses, the sheep and the people. Maintaining the balance between wolves, gazelles, sheep, marmots and even mice (the little lives) enables the grassland itself (the big life) to thrive.
The book is a fictionalised account of the authors own experiences during this time, and was a huge bestseller in China when it was published in 2004, and in translation by Howard Goldblatt in 2007 won the Man Asian literary prize.
I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes animals, other cultures, the world we live in.
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