One of the world's most ruthless warriors, Chinggis Khan conquered
nearly all of Asia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,
transforming the scattered and impoverished Mongols into an
exceptionally proud and powerful nation. In this riveting and
thoroughly researched portrait, Japan's celebrated epic novelist
drives at the root of the khan's great desires and insatiable
appetite for supremacy.
Beginning with his birth in 1162, "The Blue Wolf" follows the
crucial alliances that led to Chinggis Khan's great campaigns in
North China, Bukhara, and Samarkand, as well as the state of
Khorazm. The khan was obsessed with his ancestry, not knowing
whether he was the descendent of the blue wolf (mythical progenitor
of the Mongols and the noble Borjigin line) or merely the bastard
son of a Merkid tribesman. For Inoue Yasushi, Chinggis's ancestral
anxiety lies at the center of his relentless push for empire. He
struggled with his paternity as intensely as he fought his battles,
and his victories stood as proof that the brave warrior was a true
Mongol.
The question of paternity also formed the largest wedge between
Chinggis and his eldest son, Jochi, a boy born in captivity and of
similarly questionable heritage. Hailed for its sophistication and
rich imagining of a remote world, "The Blue Wolf" puts a human cast
on a legendary force that changed Asia and the world.
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