Chi Zijian: The Last Quarter of the Moon: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection [2022] paperback ZARCH A total triumph' ANNE GRIFFIN

A total triumph' ANNE GRIFFIN

Africa and elsewhere

a pig cannon

long-suffering family

Chi Zijian: The Last Quarter of the Moon: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection [2022] paperback ZARCH A total triumph' ANNE GRIFFIN'A long time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them' At the end of the twentieth century an old woman sits among the birch trees and reflects on the joys and tragedies that have befallen her people. A member of the Evenki tribe who wander the forests of north eastern China, hers was a life lived in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel. Then, in