Wolf Totem A Novel

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totemhas broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totemdepicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.

Jiang Rong spent eleven years in Mongolia laboring with the native nomads and learning about their culture.

Howard Goldblatt is the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West. He is a professor at Notre Dame University.