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The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan

The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan

Yasushi, Inoue
Fogel, Joshua

Hardcover

Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0231146167
ISBN13: 9780231146166
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 19 2008
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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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