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The Blue Sky is Cerise Press Editors' Favorite |
 The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag is on the short list of Editors' Favorites in the the new issue of Cerise Press. What made this novel inspired by Tschinag's own life stand out? Cerise Press editor Greta Aart (aka Fiona Sze-Lorrain) describes the pull of The Blue Sky: "Every mountain, every animal has its own story; each river, each people
its destiny. In the native voice of a nomadic Tuvan, Galsan Tschinag
colorfully evokes his ascetic childhood atop the High Altai Mountains.
With stories inherited from his affectionate, adopted grandmother, he
speaks with courage that his dog had humbled him, about constant doubts
in the face of struggles with survival, and ominous portents of
modernity or Communism." Cerise Press editors and other Tschinag fans take note: The Blue Sky's sequel, The Gray Earth, is scheduled for Milkweed publication in 2010.
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