Description "THE GREEN-Eyed LAMA" IS THE BEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MONGOLIA" (JACK WEATHERFORD)THE FIRST MONGOLIAN NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED IN THE WEST AN AWARD-WINNING, DECADE-LONG BESTSELLER IN MONGOLIA.
The year is 1938.
In November 2017, the French publishing house Grasset Editions published the novel in French under the title Le Moine Aux Yeux Verts..
The Green-Eyed Lama is the first Mongolian novel to be published in the West.
Written originally in English, it was published in Mongolian in 2008, and has been a bestseller in Mongolia for 10 years.
Nearly all of the book\'s characters are referred to by their real names.
Still, Baasan must summon every bit of his talent and ingenuity if he\'s to survive the gulag, reunite with Sendmaa, and help save the Buddhist faith.
The Green-Eyed Lama is based on a true story.
But an improbable ally, a Lama turned "KGB" agent, intervenes in a way that reaches all the way to Franklin Roosevelt.
Sendmaa, Bold, and the other northern herders are branded counter-revolutionaries, and their herds are confiscated.
As the country teeters toward war, Baasan is sentenced to death as a class enemy.
Their love triangle is engulfed by tragedy when Mongolia\'s Stalin moves to crush the Buddhist faith.
Baasan is arrested.
Baasan resolves to leave the priesthood and marry Sendmaa, but her scheming neighbor persuades Baasan\'s brother, Bold, to ask for Sendmaa\'s hand in marriage first.
Before it ends, nearly a tenth of the country\'s population will be murdered.
A young nomadic herds-woman named Sendmaa falls in love with Baasan, a talented and handsome Buddhist lama.
The newly-installed communist government of Mongolia, under orders from Moscow, has launched a nation-wide purge.
Description "THE GREEN-Eyed LAMA" IS THE BEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MONGOLIA" (JACK WEATHERFORD)THE FIRST MONGOLIAN NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED IN THE WEST AN AWARD-WINNING, DECADE-LONG BESTSELLER IN MONGOLIA.
The year is 1938
