smokeyshouse 's review for:

The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian

5.0

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A beautiful tale of the Evenki, that reads like a memoir.  The writing is very descriptive and totally evocative, as the nameless narrator details a lifetime of births, deaths, arrivals and departures with a kind of serenity and detachment that sees the impermanence of the world as natural and inevitable.  The last sentence of the book is perfection.  
I found this documentary website that seems like a real-life rendition of the novel:  https://interaction.sixthtone.com/feature/2018/Melting-Away/index.html.