A boy's nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that
"captures the mountains, valleys and steppes in all their
surpassing beauty and brutality" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In the
high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, a young shepherd boy
comes of age, tending his family's flocks on the mountain steppes
and knowing little of the world beyond the surrounding peaks. But
his nomadic way of life is increasingly disrupted by modernity.
This confrontation comes in stages. First, his older siblings leave
the family yurt to attend a distant boarding school. Then the boy's
grandmother dies, and with her his connection to the old ways. But
perhaps the greatest tragedy strikes when his dog, Arsylang--"all
that was left to me"--ingests poison set out by the boy's father to
protect his herd from wolves. "Why is it so?" Dshurukawaa cries out
in despair to the Heavenly Blue Sky, to be answered only by the
wind. Rooted in the oral traditions of the Tuvan people, The Blue
Sky weaves the timeless story of a boy poised on the cusp of
manhood with the story of a people on the threshold. "Thrilling. .
. . Tschinag makes it easy for his readers to fall into the
beautiful rhythms of the Tuvans' daily life." --Los Angeles Times
Book Review "In this pristine and concentrated tale of miraculous
survival and anguished loss, Tschinag evokes the nurturing warmth
of a family within the circular embrace of a yurt as an ancient way
of life lived in harmony with nature becomes endangered."
--Booklist
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