Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders By 李娟

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"Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her." --Laura Miller, Slate "Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle." --The New York Times Book ReviewWinner 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.Li 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. With 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."In 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 an international sensation, Li Juan transcends the travel memoir genre to deliver an indelible and immersive reading experience on every page.

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This internationally best-selling beautiful narrative nonfiction is now available to English readers for the first time! In 2010, Li Juan, a Han Chinese writer living in the Xinjiang region of China just south of the Altai Mountains, journeys to the Winter Pasture with a family of Kazakh nomadic herders. The Winter Pasture is the herders’ desert land in the south, where less snow allows for better grazing. To protect against the bitter cold, they live in burrows six feet underground, with dried sheep manure for insulation. During the day, they range the flock of hundreds of cattle, sheep, several horses, and a variety of other miscellaneous livestock including surly and stubborn camels, and walk miles collecting snow in giant sacks to melt down for water. Li Juan pens a vivid, intimate, and at times humorous portrait of a dying lifestyle. The year she journeys with Cuma’s family is the last year they are allowed to herd that far south..I was immediately captured by Li Juan’s narrative. She speaks Mandarin, while of her “host family” only Cuma and Kama speak her native language well, and Sister-in-Law with whom she spends many of her days speaks almost none; much of Li Juan’s observation reflects a curiosity to learn more about their lifestyle, but through the lens of limited language. Yet, some things like cooking and sharing meals, embroidering, saving the ailing lambs, chasing after the straying camels all transcend language. In short order, I became attached to Li Juan and Kama, imaging the vastness of their deserts as they collected their snow and hoped that they didn’t get lost due to lack of distinction in the landscape. The months in the Winter Pasture are hard, bleak, and frigid, but Li Juan conveys her experience with humor and keen insight.

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