The White MountainPaperback, 15 October 2024

The final installment in the saga of the shepherd boy first introduced in The Blue Sky and The Gray Earth, weaving the timeless tale of a boy on the cusp of manhood with the story of a people on the threshold.

Dshurukuwaa has been sent to school in a provincial capital after being taken from his homeland in the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia. Torn between his people's traditional nomadic life and his early calling as a shaman on one hand, and the relative prosperity offered by a socialist education and conformity with modern ideals on the other, he falls in love with a young woman, and first experiences sexual intimacy. Still, the traditional world of his childhood--rich with nature, spirits, and a belief in Father Sky and Mother Earth--calls, and Dshurukuwaa cannot resist.